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W. A. Mozart
String Quartet in G, K. 387
String Quartet in B-flat, K. 458 "The Hunt"
The Classical Quartet
on period instruments
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Recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, September 1985. Produced and Engineered by Timothy Martyn Assistant producer: Myron Lutzke Production director: Ralph Dopmeyer Design: Philidor Press, Boston Cover art: George Stubbs, "Two Gentlemen Going Shooting, With a View of Creswell Crag," 1767; courtesy of Yale Center for British Art. Paul Mellon Collection. Total playing time: 56:19 |
About the Performers
The Classical Quartet, founded in 1979, was the first string quartet in America to perform the masterpieces of the Classical era on period instruments. The Quartet has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
David Miller, viola
Loretta O'Sullivan, 'cello
The Instruments
Violins: Jacobus Stainer, Absam, 1655; Vincenzo Rugeri, Cremona, 1730
Viola: Matthias Albanus, Bulsani, 1687
Violoncello: attributed to Albanus of Tyrol, ca. 1720