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Mendelssohn - String Quintets

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Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553030

Barcode: 4260085530304

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd July 2021

Works

Mendelssohn, Felix

String Quintet no.1 in A major, op.18
String Quintet no.2 in B flat major, op.87

Artists

Bartholdy Quintett

Works

Mendelssohn, Felix

String Quintet no.1 in A major, op.18
String Quintet no.2 in B flat major, op.87

Artists

Bartholdy Quintett

About

This album featuring string quintets by Mendelssohn is the second from the Bartholdy Quintett on the CAvi-music label, following their first album of works by Bruckner and Zemlinsky released in 2016.

‘In February 2009, on a date very close to the celebration of Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday, we got together for the first time in a quintet lineup in order to perform a small concert in the form of a public rehearsal. The repertoire was rapidly chosen: it had to include at least one piece by Mendelssohn. After that successful experiment, we spontaneously decided upon the composer’s second surname for our new quintet...

‘In Mendelssohn’s case, the time between a finished composition and its subsequent publication could occasionally span several years; he frequently introduced significant changes, including cuts. The reasons for such changes are often no longer clear to us today. In certain cases it is not even clear whether Mendelssohn himself was responsible for the changes, or if they were made with his approval or not.

‘The fundamental dilemma in working with these sources is that one has to give priority either to the autograph manuscript or to the first printed edition. We have decided to record these works following Mendelssohn’s manuscript, thereby avoiding all cuts.

‘As an alternative, however, we have included the later version of the finale of the B flat major Quintet, which was possibly not altered by Mendelssohn himself, but by Julius Rietz - a version which many connoisseurs will still have “in their inner ear”.’

– Bartholdy Quintett