Mendelssohn: String Quartets
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Takács Quartet
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 29 October 2021
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Felix's impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister's death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frame it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work, and Fanny's own important contribution to the genre.
"The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian pace, remains as impressive as ever. But there is also an insistent dryness to the collective sound." BBC Music
"Deploying their familiar finesse (immaculate tuning and ensemble) and care for detail, the Takács do brother and sister proud." Gramophone
Tracks:
FANNY MENDELSSOHN
String Quartet in E flat major [20'09]
1 Adagio ma non troppo [4'38]
2 Allegretto [3'45]
3 Romanze [6'04]
4 Allegro molto vivace [5'42]
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
String Quartet in F minor Op 80 [24'35]
5 Allegro vivace assai - Presto [7'13]
6 Allegro assai [4'16]
7 Adagio [7'25]
8 Finale: Allegro molto [5'41]
String Quartet in A minor Op 13 [30'26]
9 Adagio - Allegro vivace [8'13]
10 Adagio non lento [7'46]
11 Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto
Allegro di molto [5'06]
12 Presto - Adagio non lento [9'21]
