The sunny Felix Mendelssohn of general concert programming is indeed occasionally in evidence on this release by Germany's Mandelring Quartet, for instance in the Canzonetta second movement of the String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 12, which could have come out of the Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. But elsewhere the album offers a very different Mendelssohn: the genius young composer who "got" Beethoven at a time when very few people really did (the booklet includes a great contemporary evaluation of the ...
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The sunny Felix Mendelssohn of general concert programming is indeed occasionally in evidence on this release by Germany's Mandelring Quartet, for instance in the Canzonetta second movement of the String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 12, which could have come out of the Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. But elsewhere the album offers a very different Mendelssohn: the genius young composer who "got" Beethoven at a time when very few people really did (the booklet includes a great contemporary evaluation of the "Kreutzer" sonata as "terroristic"). And it was not just Beethoven, but the thorny late quartets of Beethoven, that Mendelssohn grappled with. The String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, clearly shows the influence of both Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Op. 135, and String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132; its final movement mixes elements of those two finales, while the opening movement quotes the rhythm of a line in a Mendelssohn song, giving it a motivic treatment in the manner of the...
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