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Mendelssohn - String Quartets | Praga Digitals DSD250267

Mendelssohn - String Quartets

Label: Praga Digitals

Cat No: DSD250267

Barcode: 0794881932528

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 26th April 2010

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The Quartet in E minor, a favourite key of Mendelssohn’s, was written on his honeymoon journey. Its immediate success barely outlived him although its formal perfection served as a model for Schumann, Brahms, Smetana, Dvorak and even Tchaikovsky, who drew the essence of their quartet art from it.

The Zemlinskys, trained in the Czech and avant-garde schools, restore its purity of style, as they also do in the final Quartet Op.80, a veritable ‘Requiem’ for his beloved sister, Fanny, who died in May 1847, and for himself, who would follow her to the grave on November 4th.

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