Andante

I'm not sure who the ensemble is here . . . I'm pretty sure it's the Alban Berg Quartet, AKA the greatest instrumental ensemble ever in the world forever. They have this very distinct and very slight rubato that makes the beautiful descending thirds figure especially yearning and wistful. Mozart famously didn't care for the "Prussian" string quartets, or at least he apocryphally called them boring, but they are deep and subtle compositions and very forward-looking in their own way. I have always thought that this second movement of the last of them, the F major (K.590), has a fair claim to be the loveliest several minutes of music that Mozart ever wrote.