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Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
29th Oct 2021
Catalogue No: CHAN 20257(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 89 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
the Cecilia prove to be compelling advocates. They find a fine balance between the composer’s skittish qualities and his tenderer side, resulting in notably open-hearted readings. Their tremolos…seem... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016More…
Release Date:
13th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: AN29844
Label: Analekta
Length: 52 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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 starsMore…
Release Date:
28th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: CHRCD085
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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It’s bold, hot-blooded stuff; and combined with an exceptionally ambient recording acoustic, you’re hearing considerably less air between the notes than from, say, the Emersons or Artemis. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2021More…
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 starsMore…
Release Date:
29th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: 9029576112
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 77 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
CD
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kindl[es] a sneaking suspicion that this will be a cycle to collect disc-by-disc and treasure as definitive once it's complete...There is a constant sense of their conviction here...the Mandelrings... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013More…
Release Date:
5th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: AUDITE92657
Label: Audite
Series: Mendelssohn Complete Chamber Music for Strings
Length: 76 minutes
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