Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quintets in A major (Op. 18 No. 1) & in B flat major (Op. 87 No. 2) & Four Pieces for String Quartet (Op. 81)
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Complete Chamber Music for Strings, Vol. 4
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92659
ACX
2014.04.04
"Das Mandelring-Quartett spielt hier mit genau jener expressiven Glut, die schon die vorangehenden Folgen der Mendelssohn-Aufnahme durchlodert hat, und entfacht gemeinsam mit dem Bratschisten Gunter Teuffel eine bisweilen orchestrale Klangfülle." (Fono Forum)
"With a totally committed and highly energetic playing, the Mandelring Quartet and Günter Teuffel achieve a gripping and shaking performance. A fabulous last disc for an epochal Mendelssohn series." (Pizzicato)
audite’s fourth volume of Felix Mendelssohn’s complete chamber music for strings sees the Mandelring Quartett championing a genre which has always been overshadowed by the noble string quartet: the quintet for two violins, two violas and cello. Twice Mendelssohn, first as a young genius and then later as an established musician, wrote for this combination – and twice he created magnificently sonorous, rousing masterworks.