A Guided Tour of Joseph Haydn’s D-major String Quartet, Opus 33 No. 6 (1781)

The final quartet of Haydn’s Opus 33 is a vibrant D-major work with some serious D-minor undertones, offering an enormous range of styles, textures, harmonic feints and melodic invention. It is played here by the Kodály Quartet in a release by Naxos. This is a remake of earlier work. I have improved the analysis, but left my introductory remarks mostly intact.