Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2023) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Quatuor Van Kuijk
Title: Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Alpha Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:22:52
Total Size: 370 MB / 1.52 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Alpha Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:22:52
Total Size: 370 MB / 1.52 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80: I. Allegro vivace assai (7:08)
2. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80: II. Allegro assai (4:30)
3. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80: III. Adagio (9:12)
4. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80: IV. Finale. Allegro molto (5:27)
5. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: I. Allegro assai appassionato (9:23)
6. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto (3:42)
7. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: III. Andante (6:22)
8. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: IV. Presto agitato (6:15)
9. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3: I. Allegro vivace (9:41)
10. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3: II. Scherzo. Assai leggiero vivace (3:55)
11. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3: III. Adagio non troppo (8:31)
12. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3: IV. Molto allegro con fuoco (8:52)
After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes its complete recording of Mendelssohn’s string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3 and the Quartet op.80, which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: ‘The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, its overwhelming “No, not that, not her!” shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer’s last completed work. The four movements of this “confrontation with grief” (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although that marking never appears in the score.’ She goes on to quote Brigitte François-Sappey: ‘This “Requiem for Fanny” might be called “Death and the Young Woman”. As in Schubert’s last two quartets, the strings shiver in tremolos over ostinato pedals, like death knells.’
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