Quatuor Elmire

Haydn and Beethoven, the fine morning of the string quartet. Among the sixty-eight quartets left to us by Joseph Haydn, those of Op. 76 belong to his mature works. Here the composer gives free rein to his fancy, plays with tempos, and blends exuberance with melancholy; in short, he writes works outside of time, as Beethoven would do in turn a quarter century later with his late quartets. "It is difficult not to think of Beethoven's Seventh Quarte...