Mozart's very first string quartet can safely be called astonishing. The opening part, for example, is a sublime Adagio, which even Haydn should not have been ashamed of. The only fourteen (!) Year old Mozart wrote this three-part work (the rondo was added later) in one night, while he was on his first tour in the Italian town of Lodi. Angry tongues have claimed that father Leopold helped a hand.
Yet the manuscript shows almost exclusively the handwriting of little Wolfgang. The perfectly playing Cuarteto Casals knows how to capture this mixture of childish innocence and lucidity beautifully. That was to be expected, because in 2003 this quartet garnered a lot of appreciation for its interpretation of the 'Spanish Mozart', Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga. The present edition,more
