Streichquartette (String Quartets): Op. 54, Nos. 1-3

Album by Joseph Haydn & Endellion Quartet

Streichquartette (String Quartets), Op. 54, Nos. 1–3 is a set of three string quartets by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, published in 1788. The music exemplifies Haydn's mature Classical style, featuring balanced, conversational interplay between the four instruments, clear sonata-based structures, inventive motivic development and contrasts of mood, and the set occupies a transitional place in his quartet output between earlier works and the more experimental late quartets.

First released: 1988

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1.
String Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio
5:20
2.
String Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1: II. Allegretto
5:35
3.
String Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1: III. Menuetto. Allegretto
3:56
4.
String Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1: IV. Finale. Presto
3:52
5.
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2: I. Vivace
5:40
6.
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2: II. Adagio
3:15
7.
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2: III. Menuetto. Allegretto
3:58
8.
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2: IV. Finale. Adagio - Presto - Adagio
6:11
9.
String Quartet in E major, Op. 54 No. 3: I. Allegro
6:25
10.
String Quartet in E major, Op. 54 No. 3: II. Largo cantabile
8:23
11.
String Quartet in E major, Op. 54 No. 3: III. Menuetto. Allegretto
3:21
12.
String Quartet in E major, Op. 54 No. 3: IV. Finale. Presto
4:12