Artist: Quatuor Van Kuijk, Adrien La Marca
Album: String Quintets K. 515 & 516
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:07:04
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,24 GB

Tracklist:

01. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515: I. Allegro (12:41)
02. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515: II. Andante (08:45)
03. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515: III. Menuetto. Allegretto (04:59)
04. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515: IV. Allegro (07:17)
05. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516: I. Allegro (10:08)
06. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516: II. Menuetto and Trio. Allegretto (04:47)
07. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516: III. Adagio ma non troppo (07:55)
08. Quatuor Van Kuijk & Adrien La Marca – String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516: IV. Adagio – Allegro (10:27)

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As in its Schubert recording in 2018, the Quatuor van Kuijk likes to delve into a composer’s youthful output and then measure his evolution by confronting it with his mature works. Hence, after recording two of Mozart’s early string quartets in 2016, the French group, here joined by violist Adrien La Marca, now offers the String Quintets K. 515 and K. 516. These two large-scale works dominate Mozart’s instrumental output in the year 1787, which ended with the premiere of Don Giovanni. They show us a composer at the height of his creative powers, in a genre to which he had not returned for fourteen years and which he herebrought to a high degree of formal perfection.