Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
The Van Kuijk marry high technical polish (tuning and ensemble virtually flawless), close attention to Mendelssohn’s detailed markings and a spirit of youthful, spontaneous ardour.
Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Quatuor Van Kuijk
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
The Van Kuijk marry high technical polish (tuning and ensemble virtually flawless), close attention to Mendelssohn’s detailed markings and a spirit of youthful, spontaneous ardour.
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The Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrates the tenth anniversary of its creation and its sixth recording for Alpha with a complete set of Mendelssohn’s quartets, of which this is the first volume: it opens with the Quartet op.13, composed in 1827, when he was only eighteen years old. ‘A trial run? No, a masterstroke! In every movement of this first quartet, we are constantly aware that the sense of urgency is the blood that runs through its veins. Never before have we heard such tension maintained over an entire quartet’, writes Stéphane Goldet in the album’s booklet notes.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2022Editor's Choice
Awards Issue 2022
The Van Kuijk marry high technical polish (tuning and ensemble virtually flawless), close attention to Mendelssohn’s detailed markings and a spirit of youthful, spontaneous ardour.
19th November 2022
Their accounts of the Op 12 intermezzo and presto — with its unmistakable echoes of the Octet’s scherzo — are typical of a disc that glories in playing of extraordinary richness, purity, delicacy and vigour, and burrows deep into the composer’s emotional intent.
