Mozart was only fourteen when he began his StringQuartet in G K80, among the many accomplishmentsof his first visit to Italy.

Quartetto di Cremona movesfrom the work’s tuneful warmth to Beethoven’sdarkly serious String Quartet in A minor Op. 132,completed in the wake of a serious illness andgraced by the composer’s ‘Hymn of thanksgiving toGod of an invalid on his convalescence’.