Mendelssohn: String Quartets 3 & 5 - Zemlinsky Quartet
Praga Digitals PRD/DSD 250 269
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Chamber
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major Op. 44 No. 1, Andante (Tema con Variazioni) in E major Op. 81 No. 1, String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major Op. 44 No. 3
Zemlinsky Quartet
In these years of 1837-38, Mendelssohn was at the height of his humanist glory, concurrently violinist, violist, pianist, composer, conductor (of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig), still a painter in his already too-rare spare time, and a newlywed… ‘At the moment, everything comes so easily and so nicely under my pen’, he wrote, this exemplified by the Opus 44 Quartets with their radiant, virtuoso allegros and slow movements tinged with nostalgia—irresistible ‘songs without words’ for strings.
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