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Mendelssohn - String Quintets No.1 & No.2
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Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Artist(s): Fine Arts Quartet, Danilo Rossi (viola)
Release Date: 27th April 2008
More Details on Mendelssohn - String Quintets No.1 & No.2
Mendelssohn’s musical precocity, both as a player and as a performer, manifested itself at a remarkably early age. In 1826, when he was only 17, Mendelssohn wrote not only his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream but the first of his two string quintets.
The String Quintet No.2 followed 19 years later, in 1845, two years before his death. Despite the intervening years, the two Quintets are similar in style and form, with richly melodic and haunting slow movements and two wonderfully contrasting scherzos.
Included on this disc is a Minuetto - the original third movement for the Quintet No.1, which was replaced by the Intermezzo.
Fine Arts Quartet:
- Ralph Evans, Efim Boico (violin)
- Yuri Gandelsman (viola)
- Wolfgang Laufer (cello)
The String Quintet No.2 followed 19 years later, in 1845, two years before his death. Despite the intervening years, the two Quintets are similar in style and form, with richly melodic and haunting slow movements and two wonderfully contrasting scherzos.
Included on this disc is a Minuetto - the original third movement for the Quintet No.1, which was replaced by the Intermezzo.
Fine Arts Quartet:
- Ralph Evans, Efim Boico (violin)
- Yuri Gandelsman (viola)
- Wolfgang Laufer (cello)
