Formally ambitious and bearing witness to a consummate art of dynamic exchange between the four instruments, Haydn's Quartet Op. 75 No. 5 is one of the masterpieces of the genre. It is a prelude to the sonic odyssey, a distanced homage to Bach, but above all a profound expressive triptych, crowned by an exalting peroration, that is César Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue. Similarly, the Quintet in F minor alternates between galvanizing ardour, a sense of drama and a troubling elegy: how can we be surprised that its three movements drew cries of admiration from Debussy himself?
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