Mendelssohn / Enescu - Octets for Strings | C-AVI AVI8553163

Mendelssohn / Enescu - Octets for Strings

Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553163

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 14th September 2009

Contents

Artists

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Antje Weithaas (violin)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Kathrine Gowers (violin)
Rachel Roberts (viola)
Ori Kam (viola)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Quirine Viersen (cello)
Gustav Rivinius (cello)

Works

Enescu, George

Octet for strings in C major, op.7

Mendelssohn, Felix

Octet in E flat major, op.20

Artists

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Antje Weithaas (violin)
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Kathrine Gowers (violin)
Rachel Roberts (viola)
Ori Kam (viola)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Quirine Viersen (cello)
Gustav Rivinius (cello)

About

These are live performances form the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach. It is hard to believe that Mendelssohn was only sixteen when he wrote this wonderfully optimistic piece. Enescu was only nineteen when he wrote his Octet 75 years later.

This is a truly stunning performance.

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