The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 78:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907249 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 78:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907249 | Recorded: 1998
Here is an entirely unaccustomed perspective on Mendelssohn's quartets. These English "period" musicians believe that Romantic music, too, should be played in the original style, with sparing vibrato, distinct articulation, great clarity, and transparency. They even discovered–and use–the bowings and fingerings of Mendelssohn's friend, the violinist Ferdinand David. Since they play extremely well, with a beautiful, full, warm, homogeneous tone, they give the music extraordinary vitality, excitement, and passion as well as a wistful, dreamy inwardness.