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AmsterdamQuatuor Mosaïques: Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert

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Schubert, Beethoven, Haydn
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ViennaQuatuor Mosaïques

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Schubert, Beethoven, Haydn
Quatuor Mosaïques; Erich Höbarth; Andrea Bischof; Anita Mitterer

ViennaQuatuor Mosaïques / Sir András Schiff

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Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann
Quatuor Mosaïques; Erich Höbarth; Andrea Bischof; Anita Mitterer
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Old is New: Quatuor Mosaïques Reimagine Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert

Enter the sound world of Quatuor Mosaïques and check your expectations at the door. They perform on what we call period instruments: gut strings (rather than steel), classical bows (shorter than their modern counterparts), and less tension in the instruments.
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Quatuor Mosaïques: Gut instinct

String quartets don’t come much more ‘period’ than the Quatuor Mosaïques, even if their ideas of historical authenticity are more flexible than the ensemble which brought them together (Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus Wien).
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Quatour Mosaïques explores neglected repertoire

Most string quartets seldom step outside the established canon of the classical Viennese repertoire (Haydn to Schubert), some Schumann, Brahms and Dvorak, some 20th century French repertoire, Bartok and Shostakovich. Not so the Quatuor Mosaïques.