Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599919607
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mendelssohn
Description
With their début disc on BIS, the Eschers launch a three-disc cycle of Mendelssohn's string quartets, including the unnumbered String Quartet in E flat major and - on coming instalments - the four pieces for string quartet Op. 81. The quartet genre accompanied Mendelssohn throughout his life, from the previously mentioned E flat major quartet - which he composed at the age of 14 - to String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, his last major work, completed only two months before his death in 1847. As a body of work, the quartets demonstrate many of Mendelssohn's finest qualities as a composer - his fascination for and understanding of the music of both Bach and Beethoven, his affinity for string instruments, and that gift for melody as well as texture which has made his Lieder ohne Worte and the elfin music to A Midsummer Night's Dream so eternally popular. Composed in 1829, the Quartet Op. 12 is still an early work - from the time of the Hebrides Overture - while the E minor quartet, Op. 44 No. 2, can be counted as one of the first master-pieces by the mature composer.
Tracklisting
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
JORGEN VAN RIJEN; ALMA QUARTET
JONATHAN VON SCHWANENFLÜGEL; SIGNE SNEH DURHOLM; ELENOR WIMAN; JAKOB BLOCH JESPERSEN; PER BACH NISS
FRANCESCO D'ORAZIO, FRANCESCO ABBRESCIA, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, LEE REYNOLDS
ELENA PAPANDREOU
