Browse: Mendelssohn - Fugue in E flat major, Op. 81 No. 4

The A minor Quartet is a youthful masterpiece on a par with the preceding Octet…Here they deliver what must surely be one of the most intense, detailed and passionate accounts of it ever recorded…The... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The E flat major is given a bright and tender account, with balances judged finely, whether between the instruments or between the myriad emotions that flash through its fizzing duration…the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Their playing is very much like a concert performance -exciting, projected, perhaps a bit risky. — American Record Guide More…

Mendelssohn’s prodigious talent is brought to sparkling life in an album of works composed before he hit puberty. There’s nothing childish in his sophisticated mimicry of the languages of Bach... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

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 — Diapason, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…