Title: one of the best versions
Product review: Incredible music (the slow movement draws tears every time, and it has been so for about 20 years now, and the energy of the finale is never pure virtuosity), incredible playing (the story these musicians are telling is always on the foreground, and the phrasing, the dynamics, are so subtle!), incredible sound (beautiful instruments, "woody tone" without too much of the brightness or harshness of "modern" instruments), perfect recording for chamber music : just a little reverberation, not too closely miked, recorded in a famous swiss theater.My favorite version, with the Alban Berg Quartet's. Too bad none of the best "baroque" ensembles, such as Hausmusik led by Monica Huggett (they did perfect Mozart's quintets), never recorded this piece. The Quatuor Mosaques, with famous musicians from Harnoncourt's Concentus Musicus, did only a caricature of an interpretation.
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