Beethoven & Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Sacconi Quartet
The Sacconi Quartet should certainly be applauded for their imaginative programming in this beautifully engineered release. Moreover hearing the works side by side makes it abundantly clear...
Beethoven & Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Sacconi Quartet
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The Sacconi Quartet should certainly be applauded for their imaginative programming in this beautifully engineered release. Moreover hearing the works side by side makes it abundantly clear...
About
Presented together on CD for the first time, Beethoven’s monumental opus 132 quartet and Mendelssohn’s dramatic response to it – his opus 13 quartet – are heard side by side.
Written only months after Beethoven’s death, Mendelssohn’s second string quartet contains a staggering number of structural and motivic similarities to the older composer’s late quartets, particularly his opus 132, and represents a staggering homage to Beethoven’s mastery.
Recorded over the space of two years, this is the Sacconi’s most important recording undertaking so far, presenting them at their most expressive and dramatic in these pillars of the string quartet repertoire.
Contents and tracklist
Work length48:07
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Assai sostenuto – Allegro
Track length10:25
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Allegro ma non tanto
Track length10:01
This track is only available as an album download.
III. Molto adagio Heiliger Dankgesang
Track length17:57
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2016
The Sacconi Quartet should certainly be applauded for their imaginative programming in this beautifully engineered release. Moreover hearing the works side by side makes it abundantly clear that even though the young Mendelssohn was absolutely enthralled by Beethoven’s originality, his distinctive voice is present in every bar of his own work
4th September 2016
The playing is fresh and pliable, each work illuminating the other. Both have been widely recorded, but not together. Assuming you’re not a completist, that’s reason enough to snap up this disc.
Classical Music September 2016
Refreshing , committed performances of two great works that share a dramatic key, and these excellent young players relish the drama herein
