The London Haydn Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets Op 9 - performed from the 1790 London edition published by Longman and Broderip

Haydn�s Op 9 quartets are commonly seen as his first �mature� set, written during the period when he emerged as an indisputably great composer. They have an amplitude, a seriousness of intent and an increasing mastery of rhetoric and thematic development that are a world away from his earlier works. They demonstrate the dazzling inventiveness and sense of symphonic structure which characterize Haydn�s greatest works.The London Haydn Quartet perform on gut strings with classical bows, and have returned to eighteenth-century editions of the quartets, allowing them the greatest variety of interpretative possibilities.