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 ...

The Henschel Quartet is a strong, well-unified group (three of the four are siblings); its ardent, robust approach suits Mendelssohn, and the lyrical expansiveness of Op 12’s first movement and ...

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 ...

That the 14-year-old Mendelssohn's first attempt at a string quartet is so assured is perhaps not so remarkable when you consider he had already been composing for six years and had written the first ...

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 ...

Mendelssohn's string quartets belie the received image of his being an emotionally safe composer, and the Quatuor Ebène's latest album presents us with what are probably the most intense pieces in his ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the other an outpouring of anguish after his sister Fanny’s death, are, for me, among ...

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Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...

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 ...