Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String Quartet... May 2026

A clear, bright tone with minimal use of vibrato to avoid over-romanticizing the early classical style.

Reviewers from Gramophone praised the quartet's ability to adapt their style to the teenage Mozart, highlighting the "unusual musical insight" and lack of sentimentality. Cuarteto Casals - Mozart - Early String Quartet...

report on Mozart's Early String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi) is a comprehensive recording project that captures the composer's formative years in the genre, specifically works written between 1770 and 1773. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005. Label: Harmonia Mundi (Catalogue No. HMI 987060.62). A clear, bright tone with minimal use of

Notably fast Andantes and finales that often "tear away" at top speed. Album Overview Release Date: October 27, 2005

The quartet used a matching set of classical-period bows for this recording, acquired through a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. Critical Reception Reviews for this specific set were polarized: