Well, this is the easiest review to write in the world. The Kodaly topped off their cycle with incandescent performances of Opus 17. Ignore that old grump Hans Keller: there's some fine music here, not least Number 4 which is the only quartet that Haydn ever wrote in C Minor. By any standard, even late Haydn, it is a masterpiece. What longing fills its slow movement - if you had told me that it had been written decades later in 1790 when Haydn was so desperate to leave the Esterhazy birdcage, I would have believed you. Beautifully terraced, the last movement is energy itself. Elsewhere, it is always interesting to hear Haydn in E Major (to wit Symphony No 29) - so it proves to be with the first quartet of this set.

The Kodaly are well recorded. If you are in the hunt for Opus 17 then your quarry is here.