The Edinburgh Quartet Songbook: Haydn Op76. No 2 "Fifths"

Filmed in the beautiful Great Hall of the 15th Century Scottish keep, Borthwick Castle. This quartet in D minor, in a reference to the falling perfect fifths at its start, is known as the Fifths (or, in German, the Quinten) quartet.
i. Allegro
ii. Andante o più tosto allegretto
iii. Menuetto. Allegro ma non troppoiv.
iv. Vivace assai
The first movement is in D minor, common time and sonata form. The falling fifths motif dominates the exposition and is featured heavily in the development using inversion, stretto and other devices.
The second movement is a ternary variation form in D major and 6/8 time.
The third movement, a D-minor minuet in 3/4 time with trio in D major, has been called the “Witches’ Minuet” (“Hexenminuett“). The minuet is a two-part canon: the two violins play (in parallel octaves) above the viola and cello (also playing in parallel octaves) who follow one measure behind the violins. Haydn previously used a two-part canon with the lower string trailing the upper strings by a single bar in the minuet of his 44th Symphony.
The last movement, in D minor and 2/4 time, uses sonata allegro form. It ends in D major.
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Produced by Mark Neal (audio) and Sandy Butler (video), with thanks to Borthwick Castle