QUATUOR HERMÈS 21 This is your first Mozart recording. Did you require these years of maturation to feel ready to record his music, which seems so spontaneous? That is a never-ending debate! We sometimes feel that we never played Mozart better than at the age of ten... But at that age, we had not yet uncovered his dark side. With time and maturity, we become far better able to grasp his intentions, for his scores are, at first glance, less self-evident than, say, a quartet by Joseph Haydn. To bring forth Mozartian spontaneity, we must pass through the intellect, analyse every phrase, overlook no detail, every note matters. To this must be added the pursuit of a natural flow in the discourse, giving the impression that it springs straight from the heart and never ceases, like an unbroken stream; an art at which Alfred Brendel excelled. These years of waiting and reflection have also enabled us to develop our imagination and to lend greater depth to each of the characters that inhabit the world of this quartet.
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