The first two of the three string quartets of Mendelssohn's Op. 44 were recorded by the Cherubini Quartett in 1990. With its transparent textures, elegant phrasing, and refined execution, the ensemble is temperamentally suited to this music, which seems to require those qualities above others. While Mendelssohn acquired many advanced compositional ...
For all that they are periodically being re-discovered, Schumann's chamber works perpetually hang in the outer edges of the standard repertoire. Apparently, no matter how excellent, how empathetic, and how virtuosic the performances are, Schumann's chamber works resist the embrace of the standard repertoire. This is, of course, the standard ...
The convention of a composer transcribing and even embroidering on the work of another composer is one of the oldest in western music. Parody masses, beginning at least as early as the fourteenth century, employed a popular melody, or the melody of another composer, as one of the lines in its polyphonic structure. Bach made arrangements of Vivaldi ...
Why not Mendelssohn's String Quartets? After all, wasn't Mendelssohn a great composer, too? In some people's opinion, no. There are hundreds of recordings of the quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Dvorák, and occasional revivals of the quartets of Schumann. There are even recordings of the quartets of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. But ...
Mendelssohn's string quartets seem to be "rediscovered" about every five years, which is surprising given their quality (they are arguably the best examples of the genre between Schubert and Brahms). Yet one of the great surprises of the early digital era was the set of Mendelssohn's quartets by the Cherubini Quartett recorded between 1989 and ...
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