Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 & Octet
Cleveland Quartet & Meliora Quartet
These two works, the Octet written when Mendelssohn was 16, the Quartet Op. 13 when he was 19, and under the influence of Beethoven's late quartets, are the most wonderful music ever written...
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 & Octet
Cleveland Quartet & Meliora Quartet
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These two works, the Octet written when Mendelssohn was 16, the Quartet Op. 13 when he was 19, and under the influence of Beethoven's late quartets, are the most wonderful music ever written...
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Contents and tracklist
Public Domain:
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 13, MWV R 22: I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
Work length7:49
- Donald Weilerstein (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Public Domain:
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 13, MWV R 22: II. Adagio non lento
Work length7:12
- Donald Weilerstein (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Public Domain:
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 13, MWV R 22: III. Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto
Work length4:17
- Donald Weilerstein (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Public Domain:
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 13, MWV R 22: IV. Presto - Adagio non lento
Work length9:27
- Donald Weilerstein (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Public Domain:
String Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R 20: I. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco
Work length14:11
- Elizabeth Anderson (cello), Maria Lambros (viola), Calvin Wiersma (violin), Ian Swensen (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin), Donald Weilerstein (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet, Meliora Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
- Elizabeth Anderson (cello), Maria Lambros (viola), Calvin Wiersma (violin), Ian Swensen (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin), Donald Weilerstein (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet, Meliora Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Public Domain:
String Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R 20: III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo
Work length4:29
- Elizabeth Anderson (cello), Maria Lambros (viola), Calvin Wiersma (violin), Ian Swensen (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin), Donald Weilerstein (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet, Meliora Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
- Elizabeth Anderson (cello), Maria Lambros (viola), Calvin Wiersma (violin), Ian Swensen (violin), Paul Katz (cello), Atar Arad (viola), Peter Salaff (violin), Donald Weilerstein (violin)
- Cleveland Quartet, Meliora Quartet
- Recorded: 1987
Awards and reviews
November 2006
These two works, the Octet written when Mendelssohn was 16, the Quartet Op. 13 when he was 19, and under the influence of Beethoven's late quartets, are the most wonderful music ever written by anyone of that age. These are superlative large-scale accounts.
