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Mendelssohn: Complete Works for String Quartet

Sophie Bevan (soprano) & Julian Milford (piano)

Mendelssohn: Complete Works for String Quartet

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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20145 out of 5 stars

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Mendelssohn: Complete Works for String Quartet

Sophie Bevan (soprano) & Julian Milford (piano)

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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20145 out of 5 stars

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A new 4-CD survey of the complete quartet music of Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn, on Champs Hill Records.

The finest young, up-and-coming string quartets in some of Mendelssohn’s wonderful chamber music.

Each quartet performed by a different young ensemble, the release featuring the: Benyounes, Idomeneo, Sacconi, Navarra, Castalian, Piatti, Badke, Artea, Wu, and Cavaleri String Quartets.

This ambitious project fulfills two of the key aims of the label, to release less-recorded repertoire and to help young musicians.

Includes the posthumously published String Quartet in E flat aged 14.

Also includes the 12 Fugues for String Quartet (written when he was 12); Four Pieces for String Quartet (which - never intended as a collection - include the middle two movements of the quartet he left unfinished on his death in 1847); and Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet.

A revitalisation of this important chamber music repertoire, for a whole generation of performers and listeners alike.

Music which was admired in the 19th century for the assured writing, structure and fine aristocratic style.

Bonus track of the song Frage (Ist es Wahr?), the inspiration for Quartet Nr.2, sung by Sophie Bevan accompanied by Julian Milford.

Contents and tracklist

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 18
Work length26:03
  • Benyounes Quartet
I. Allegro moderato
Track length9:44
II. Adagio non troppo
Track length6:03
III. Menuetto & Trio
Track length6:07
IV. Fuga
Track length4:09
Mendelssohn: Frage (Ist es Wahr?), Op. 9 No. 1, MVW. K 39
Work length1:52
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Work length31:04
I. Adagio – Allegro vivace
Track length8:21
II. Adagio non lento
Track length7:23
III. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto
Track length5:23
IV. Presto - Adagio non lento
Track length9:57
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12
Work length25:07
  • Idomeneo Quartet
I. Adagio non troppo - Allegro non tardante
Track length7:38
II. Canzonetta: Allegretto
Track length4:01
III. Andante espressivo
Track length4:35
IV. Molto allegro e vivace
Track length8:53
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1
Work length28:33
  • Navarra Quartet
I. Molto allegro vivace
Track length9:38
II. Menuetto: Un poco allegretto
Track length5:40
III. Andante espressivo ma con moto
Track length5:45
IV. Presto con brio
Track length7:30
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2
Work length27:26
This work is only available as an album download.
  • Castilian Quartet
I. Allegro assai appassionato
Track length10:02
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Scherzo: Allegro di molto
Track length4:13
III. Andante
Track length6:36
IV. Presto agitato
Track length6:35
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3
Work length31:56
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Allegro vivace
Track length10:04
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Scherzo: Assai leggiero vivace
Track length3:52
III. Adagio non troppo
Track length8:41
IV. Molto allegro con fuoco
Track length9:19
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
Work length24:40
I. Allegro vivace assai
Track length7:28
II. Allegro assai
Track length4:23
III. Adagio
Track length7:28
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
Track length5:21
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces for String Quartet Op. 81, MVW. R 34: I. Andante in E major
Work length6:12
  • Artea Quartet
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces for String Quartet Op. 81, MVW. R 35: II. Scherzo in A minor
Work length3:50
  • Artea Quartet
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces for String Quartet Op. 81, MVW. R 32: III. Capriccio in E minor
Work length6:37
  • Artea Quartet
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces for String Quartet Op. 81, MVW. R 25: IV. Fugue in E-Flat major
Work length7:09
  • Artea Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 1: I. Fuga in D Minor
Work length2:07
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 2: II. Fuga in C Major
Work length2:18
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 3: III. Fuga in D Minor
Work length1:57
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 4: IV. Fuga in D Minor
Work length3:00
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 5: V. Fuga in C Minor
Work length2:48
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 6: VI. Fuga in D Minor
Work length1:45
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 7: VII. Fuga in C Minor
Work length2:15
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 8: VIII. Fuga in E-Flat Major
Work length2:18
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 10: IX. Fuga in G Minor
Work length2:10
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 12: X. Fuga in F Major
Work length1:47
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 14: XI. Fuga in A Major
Work length1:43
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn: 12 Fugen fur Streichquartett, Ohne Opus, MVW. R 17: XII. Fuga in C Major
Work length2:12
  • Wu Quartet
Mendelssohn, Fanny: String Quartet in E flat major
Work length20:38
  • Cavaleri Quartet
I. Adagio ma non troppo
Track length4:27
II. Allegretto
Track length3:39
III. Romanze
Track length6:59
IV. Allegro molto vivace
Track length5:33

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    September 2014
    Chamber Choice

September 2014

a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud the musicianship of these excellently recorded performances, which give us Mendelssohn in his infinite variety.
5 out of 5 stars

August 2014

The Sacconis are on the slow side but they earn and hold the attention: voicing the opening chorale with organ-like unanimity and in subsequent repetitions allowing the lower and middle parts to rise quietly through the texture so that by the final climax…the ensemble sound is positively luminescent…[the Mendelssohn is] a big performance; positively symphonic, in fact.
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