Mendelssohn - String Quartets Nos 5 & 6
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2160
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 30th September 2016
Contents
Works
Pieces (4) for String Quartet, op.81String Quartet no.6 in F minor, op.80
Artists
Escher String QuartetWorks
Pieces (4) for String Quartet, op.81String Quartet no.6 in F minor, op.80
Artists
Escher String QuartetAbout
On the third and final disc in the series, time has come for the two last quartets, as well as the Capriccio and Fugue from the Op.81 set of Four Pieces for String Quartet begun on the previous instalment. The String Quartet No.5 in E flat major belongs to the three quartets composed in 1837-38 as Op.44 and is often considered a masterpiece of the genre. Ever modest, Mendelssohn himself recommended the set to his friend, the pianist Ignaz Moscheles, with the words: ‘there are one or two amongst them I am pleased with myself, and I should like to know that I am right, and that you too are satisfied with them’.
Published posthumously, the Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80 holds a special place in Mendelssohn’s list of works: not only is it one of his very last compositions, but the breath-taking work is the direct and heartfelt response to the unexpected death of his beloved sister Fanny. ‘The impassioned character of the entire work seems to me to be in keeping with his [Mendelssohn’s] profoundly unsettled state of mind’, Moscheles noted in his diary after having heard the quartet at the composer’s home on 5 October 1847. A month later, after suffering a number of strokes, Mendelssohn died.
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