About this product
Title: String Quartets, Vol. 4
Artist: Minguet Quartet
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203526123
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-06-19
Number of Discs: 1
The Minguet Quartet concludes it's four-volume set here, which now includes all of Mendelssohn's string quartets - not only the seven works by the fortunate Felix, who had a musical career open to him from childhood, but also the only quartet by his older sister Fanny, for whom music was only ever allowed 'to be an adornment, never the foundation of life,' as their father Abraham decreed with the declamation of a patriarch. And once again, the question arises as to why it is permissible to shackle unmistakeable talent with the chains of convention. This unique work by the then 30-year old composer soars to masterful heights with it's individual form and exuberant emotions. It is an ideal counterpart to the classical mood of the E flat major quartet with which Felix completed his Opus 44 four years later.
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet in E Flat Major-Adagio Ma Non Troppo
1.2 String Quartet in E Flat Major-Allegretto
1.7 String Quartet No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3-Adagio Non Troppo
Artist: Minguet Quartet
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203526123
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-06-19
Number of Discs: 1
The Minguet Quartet concludes it's four-volume set here, which now includes all of Mendelssohn's string quartets - not only the seven works by the fortunate Felix, who had a musical career open to him from childhood, but also the only quartet by his older sister Fanny, for whom music was only ever allowed 'to be an adornment, never the foundation of life,' as their father Abraham decreed with the declamation of a patriarch. And once again, the question arises as to why it is permissible to shackle unmistakeable talent with the chains of convention. This unique work by the then 30-year old composer soars to masterful heights with it's individual form and exuberant emotions. It is an ideal counterpart to the classical mood of the E flat major quartet with which Felix completed his Opus 44 four years later.
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet in E Flat Major-Adagio Ma Non Troppo
1.2 String Quartet in E Flat Major-Allegretto
1.7 String Quartet No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 3-Adagio Non Troppo
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