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Mendelssohn - String Quintets No.1 & No.2 | Naxos 8570488

Mendelssohn - String Quintets No.1 & No.2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570488

Barcode: 0747313048878

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

About

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)

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