(4) Pieces for String Quartet, Movements: Capriccio in E minor New Zealand Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Felix Mendelssohn, Composer New Zealand Quartet (4) Pieces for ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

The arrival of new cellist Brook Speltz has done little to change the rich, warm and vital sound of the Escher String Quartet in the middle of their Mendelssohn cycle. Their June release of Quartets 1 ...

The first instalment of Naxos's survey of the Mendelssohn quartets ranges right across his output. The E flat Op 12 was published in 1830 as his first quartet, though at least two other works in the ...

It is excitingly difficult to attune the ear to their unique sound, and the process of doing so allows listeners to accustom themselves to a strangely eerie sound world that is as rich and varied in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of Mendelssohn’s six quartets, the three here come from noticeably different periods – the teenage years (No 2), the ...

The line between tenderness and melancholy is smudged in Felix Mendelssohn's youthful String Quartet No 2 in A minor. Quatuor Ebène's subtle performance seems designed to frame the darker soundworld ...

The violinist Christian Tetzlaff has for some time been among the world’s outstanding soloists, a musician for whom intelligence and integrity stand on at least as high a footing as passion and tonal ...

Mendelssohn's music doesn't get nearly enough respect. Sure, he's regularly listed among the Romantic masters, but often with a condescending asterisk suggesting that his music is just a little too ...