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Turicum Quartet / Menuet of the witches

Joseph Haydn has been called “Papa Haydn”, both affectionately and pejoratively. Meanwhile, he was a composer whose mastery and unpredictability went hand in hand. Let us appreciate the emotional glimmering of the music, its surprising turns, sense of humour (the “menuet of the witches” quite unlike the court dance), or the finale inspired by music of the Romani people living in the borderlands of Austria and Hungary, where the composer spent most of his life. The spirit of Austria-Hungary is... Read full text

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Turicum Quartet

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String Quartet in D minor “Fifths” op. 76 No. 2 Hob. III:76Joseph Haydn
Five pieces for string quartetErwin Schulhoff
String Quartet No. 1 in C major op. 37Karol Szymanowski
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