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Chamber, Quintets, String Quintets, Mendelssohn (composer)
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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the Doric Quartet with Timothy Ridout make light of [No. 1's] formidable difficulties. Their very effective pianissimo playing stands them in particularly good stead in the quietly scurrying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: String Quintets Nos. 1 & 2
Barbara Buntrock (viola)
Leipzig String Quartet
The Intermezzo of the First is a good example of the Leipzig's approach, thoroughly involving, bringing out the quiet rhetoric of Mendelssohn's writing so it absolutely registers but never feels... —
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Between joy and petulance, effervescent rhythms and melodic generosity, this acute and electric reading is immediately seductive…the Mandelring are lacking in neither character nor determination —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. 5: Romanticism
Conrad Hansen (piano), Heinrich Geuser (clarinet), Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Amadeus Quartet
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Special offer. Wendling Quartet: The Complete Recordings
Oscar Shumsky (violin), Robin Sutherland, Wendling-Quartett, Carl Wendling, Hermann Hubl, Ludwig Natterer, Alfred Saal, Phillip Dreisbach, Hans Michaelis, Phillip Neeter, Walter Reichardt, Wittenberg Quartett, Alfred Wittenberg, Hermann Behr, Paul Hermann, Josef Melzer
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Fine, stylish performances of both these wonderful works —
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The performers dig into those qualities for all they’re worth. They don’t play it safe, but step on the gas and risk high rewards at high speed when appropriate...There’s a strong sense of unified... —
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New. Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956 - Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op. 87, MWV R 33
Fritz Kiskalt, Paul Hennevogel, Endres Quartet, Bamberg String Quartet
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