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Release Date: 04 September 2026
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624512715
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Nui
Description
This album - the third to be released on Alpha Classics - is entitled Nui (a Korean word meaning 'sister'). The Esme Quartet pays tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with Fanny's Quartet in E-Flat major, written during the final year of her life, which finds a poignant echo in Felix's Quartet No. 6 in F minor, written in the aftermath of his sister's sudden death: The Esme Quartet hears in Fanny's Quartet an "intimate and penetrating voice, reaching outwards with urgency, tenderness and vulnerability." The programme also features a new work commissioned from the Korean-American composer Juri Seo, inspired by the traditional Korean song Eommaya nunaya ("Mother, Sister"). "This song evokes a peaceful, distant place where loved ones gather and the heart finds rest, offering a quiet sense of comfort that resonates naturally with the emotional landscape of the Mendelssohns," concludes the Esme Quartet, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary with this new recording.
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
La Tempete; Simon-Pierre Bestion
Cyrille Dubois; Pierre Dumoussaud; Brussels Philharmonic
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko
Thomas Dunford
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; Paavo Jarvi
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
Esme Quartet
Esme Quartet
