Mendelssohn - Fugue in E flat major, Op. 81 No. 4
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Their playing is very much like a concert performance -exciting, projected, perhaps a bit risky. — More…
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the Talich remains a model of instinctively musical, utterly democratic quartet playing. The detail etched into each work here is startling, yet none of it is delivered with the kind of look-at-me... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2005, Period Instrument Choice
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4
with Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Quatuor Arod
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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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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... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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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 — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2005, Budget Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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