Quatuor Capriccio - Capriccios

The award-winning Quatuor Capriccio presents an album inspired by its own name: Capriccios. There is a long tradition of capricious or whimsical virtuoso movements adding sparkle to the classical repertoire, and the earliest example featured on this collection forms part of Haydn�s Quartet No.2, Op.20. Mendelssohn�s Four Pieces for String Quartet are rounded off with a Capriccio of emotional depth, and the virtuosic tradition of Paganini�s Caprices is at the heart of a work by another virtuoso violinist-composer, Ysa�e. There is a jaunty Capriccio from 20th-century composer Weinberg, and the album is brought up to date with a contemporary work dating from 2017 by South African composer Robert Fokkens. The album closes with the rich and intricate sextet from Richard Strauss�s opera, Capriccio, for which the Quatuor Capriccio is joined by G�rard Causs� on viola and Yan Levionnois on cello.