The last of Mozart’s so-called ‘Haydn’ Quartets is commonly known as the ‘Dissonance’, thanks to the daring harmonic clashes present in its slow introduction. The work, composed in Vienna in 1785, includes a slow movement graced by one of the most poignant of all Mozart’s melodies.

Cuarteto Casals prefaces its interpretation with Mozart’s first ‘Haydn’ Quartet and Schubert’s early String Quartet in B flat.