String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 1. Adagio; Allegro vivace String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 2. Adagio non lento String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 3. Intermezzo; Allegretto con moto ...

Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

Mendelssohn's music doesn't get nearly enough respect. Sure, he's regularly listed among the Romantic masters, but often with a condescending asterisk suggesting that his music is just a little too ...

The Paris-based Quatuor Ebene — the "Ebony Quartet" — has risen fast in the musical world with two separate artistic identities. In recent years, audiences have gotten to know the "other" Ebenes — the ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

It seems only yesterday that the Pacifica Quartet burst on the scene, yet the youthful ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season with debuts in Japan and in London’s Wigmore Hall–and by ...

The Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have intrigued Mendelssohn; but the relationship between the last two, a flattened sixth against a fifth, ...

The Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets announce the February 5, 2021 release of a collaborative album on Marquis Classics, produced by Grammy-winner Judith Sherman. This new release features the world ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of Mendelssohn’s six quartets, the three here come from noticeably different periods – the teenage years (No 2), the ...