Mendelssohn - String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87
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the Doric Quartet with Timothy Ridout make light of [No. 1's] formidable difficulties. Their very effective pianissimo playing stands them in particularly good stead in the quietly scurrying... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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The performers dig into those qualities for all they’re worth. They don’t play it safe, but step on the gas and risk high rewards at high speed when appropriate...There’s a strong sense of unified... — More…
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Fine, stylish performances of both these wonderful works — More…
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Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18, etc.
Mendelssohn String Quartet, Robert Mann (viola)
Anyone wanting modern-instrument recordings of two of Mendelssohn's finest chamber works could not better this BIS-SACD. The performances are full of sparkle and vitality. — More…
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Between joy and petulance, effervescent rhythms and melodic generosity, this acute and electric reading is immediately seductive…the Mandelring are lacking in neither character nor determination — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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The Mendelssohn bicentenary this year will doubtless generate a flood of recordings, and with luck some of them will be devoted to perhaps the most unfairly neglected area of his output, chamber... — More…
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The A major first quintet, Op 18... [is] scored for the Mozartian quintet lineup with two violas rather than the two cellos that Boccherini and later Schubert favoured, it inhabits an ingratiatingly... — More…
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