The first of the six quartets dedicated to Haydn, the Spring Quartet deploys all of Mozart's science in its four movements, from dramatic chromaticism to the use of the fugue style. The string quartet is a perfect balance, but can we enclose an entire opera in it? This is done with a luminous transcription of The Magic Flute, in which the four bows reactivate Tamino's adventures, the Queen of the Night's schemes and the initiatory union in beauty and wisdom. Far from the Masonic rituals, but still in Vienna and at the cost of a leap in time, Webern's Six Bagatelles (1913) offer the mirror of their atonal brevity, like "musical fragments" hoisted to a peak of poetic-dramatic concentration.
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