Early Haydn – Leonkoro Quartett

Opus 33

'Von einer neu, gantz besonderer Art', is how Haydn describes his collection of six quartets Opus 33, written in elegant Vienna, summer 1781. Wolfgang Rihm lives in a different world, in the raging world of today. But Haydn's clever playfulness, which can be heard so well in his String Quartet op. 33 no. 3 is also in Rihm's contemporary tonal language. Rihm describes the playing of the Leonkoro Quartett as follows: 'Enchanting quartet playing like it hasn't been heard in a long time.'

Does coincidence exist?

The young composing violinist Joseph Haydn – far from 'Papa', rather 'puppy' Haydn – played with three random other string players for the Viennese Count Von Fürnberg. I liked the coincidental harmony so much that Count asked Haydn for more repertoire for this combination. In the following works, Haydn laid the foundation for the string quartet, the medium that has given us so much beautiful music. In the Early Haydn concert series, the classical beauty of Haydn's Opus 33 is in the hands of a different quartet every morning.