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The four movements of K589, Allegro, Larghetto, Menuetto‐Moderato, Allegro Assai, challenge the balance between movements: the Minuet is the longest movement, whilst the final Allegro Assai is very short. Again in this quartet, Mozart uses counterpoint to the full. The second movement, the Larghetto is beautifully proportioned, gentle and elegant, with its exquisite melody being mostly on the violin. The Menuetto‐Moderato has none of the dance‐like predictability of Mozart’s early minuets: it is recognisably in a triple time, but is full of motives and ideas playfully tossed between the instruments. The final Allegro Assai is a bright, bouncy movement with reminiscences of the opening of the ‘Hunt’ quartet, and confidently finishes off this quartet in only 155 bars. K 590, the last of Mozart’s quartets, shows that he had completely mastered a form which he had seemed to struggle with: its drama is immediately obvious in the opening bars, confident and commanding with simple, unison arpeggios. Soon, the listener is entertained by the cello’s starring role ‐ a tribute to Friedrich Wilhelm II, himself an amateur cellist. The second movement, Allegretto is an almost operatic melody with variations like some of the coloratura arias from Mozart’s operas. There is, below the mask of warmth, a slight melancholy. The Minuet is not one of Mozart’s bright, childlike ones, it too bears dark undertones. However, in the final Allegro movement, the happy mask is firmly back in place, and Mozart delights with the exuberance of the writing, but beneath there is a tension and Mozart interrupts the bright, coloratura writing with insistent semi‐quaver figures and abrupt chords.
Playlist
Tracklist: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575: 0:00:00 I. Allegretto 0:08:01 II. Andante 0:13:04 III. Menuetto - Trio. Allegretto 0:19:35 IV. Allegretto String Quartet in B-Flat Major, K. 589: 0:26:02 I. Allegro 0:32:23 II. Larghetto 0:40:21 III. Menuetto - Trio. Moderato 0:47:50 IV. Allegro assai String Quartet in F Major, K. 590: 0:51:51 I. Allegro moderato 1:01:18 II. Andante 1:08:48 III. Menuetto - Trio. Allegretto 1:13:18 IV. Allegro
