Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have intrigued Mendelssohn; but the relationship between the last two, a flattened sixth against a fifth, ...

String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 1. Adagio; Allegro vivace String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 2. Adagio non lento String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13: 3. Intermezzo; Allegretto con moto ...

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 Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

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 ...

You may have already heard the Mendelssohn String Quartet, who will perform Saturday night at the Lucas Theatre. The group-violinists Miriam Fried and Nicholas Mann, violist Daniel Panner; and cellist ...

Watch one of today's top string quartets delve deep at a Brooklyn bookstore to play the dark-hued second movement of Felix Mendelssohn's Op. 80... The Paris-based Quatuor Ebene — the "Ebony Quartet" — ...

The Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets let us inside their Manchester rehearsals for a performance of Mendelssohn's amazing Octet. Show more The Elias Quartet join forces with the Emmeline ...

Amber Quartet performs at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on June 19 featuring Felix Mendelssohn's music works for string quartets.[Photo provided to China Daily] For Chinese audiences, ...

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 Paris-based Quatuor Ebene — the "Ebony Quartet" — has risen fast in the musical world with two separate artistic identities. In recent years, audiences have gotten to know the "other" Ebenes — the ...