The renowned Czech Wihan Quartet present three masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire. In a gesture at once humble and assured, Mozart dedicated his E-flat quartet to his colleague and friend Joseph Haydn, the undisputed master of quartet-writing. Smetana’s raw and profoundly personal second quartet is a diary of his final illness, whilst Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ fortells his own premature demise.