In these two works [For Haydn’s “Fifths” Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 and for Beethoven’s Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18], the quartet exhibited tight phrasing and well-controlled, starkly contrasting dynamics. Animated physicality abounded throughout, and the players really “dug in” during sections dominated by fiercely driving dance rhythms (the third movements of both works, for example).