Mendelssohn - String Quintets
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Label: Hyperion - Helios
Cat No: CDH55377
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 28th May 2012
Contents
Artists
Raphael EnsembleWorks
String Quintet no.1 in A major, op.18String Quintet no.2 in B flat major, op.87
Artists
Raphael EnsembleAbout
The two String Quintets were composed at opposite ends of his short career. Quintet No.1 was written in 1826, soon after the completion of the Octet and E major Piano Sonata and before the Overture to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, when Mendelssohn was still only seventeen. He later substituted a slow movement in memory of his friend, the violinist Eduard Rietz, and it was this revised version of the Quintet that was published in Bonn the same year and is recorded here.
Quintet No.2 dates from 1845 (when Mendelssohn was still only thirty-six), a year before his triumphant success with Elijah in Birmingham and just two years prior to his premature death.
‘Fine, stylish performances of both these wonderful works’ - BBC Music Magazine
‘Will provide discerning listeners with a rich yield of musical pleasure’ - Gramophone
‘The performances are both inspired and passionate. I suspect they will provide great listening pleasure to all who admire these scores for many years to come’ - Fanfare, USA
Diapason d'Or
[from CDA66993]
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