Browse: Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2

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 stars More…

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 2016 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…

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 2021 More…

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…

An attractive coupling vivaciously and expertly played. — Liverpool Daily Post More…

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 2013 More…