Mozart's String Quartet No 15 in D minor with Quatuor Van Kuijk
Mozart's String Quartet No 15 in D minor, K421, played by Quatuor Van Kuijk, former members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists programme.
New Generation Artists: the Van Kuijk Quartet, former members of Radio 3's prestigious young artist programme play Mozart.
The quartet they play was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed.
Mozart: String Quartet No 15 in D minor, K421
Quatuor Van Kuijk
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet no 15 in D minor, K.421
Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.- ALPHA.
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- Wed 15 Jan 2020 16:30BBC Radio 3
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