Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809):
String Quartet in E major, Op. 17 No. 1, Hob. III:25
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 17 No. 4, Hob. III:28
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String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2, Hob. III:57

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At the concert of the internationally renowned Gringolts Quartet, founded in 2008, two relatively early yet already fully mature quartets from among Haydn’s 68 string quartets represent the Eszterháza years, when the outstanding violinist Luigi Tomasini was among Haydn’s musicians. Composed more than a decade and a half later, in 1788, the C major quartet from the Op. 54 set reveals a Haydn who had by then achieved international fame and become fashionable in both Paris and London. It was in response to Parisian taste in particular that the composer supplied the strikingly virtuosic, high-lying first violin part, together with the work’s occasionally almost symphonic sonority.