Mendelssohn/ Minguet Quartett - String Quartets 2 Fulfilled By AEC 31 classics

31 classics

defies expectations across ten tracks whose diversity is one of the album's great strengths

These works marvelously echo the chorales

Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s

Mendelssohn/ Minguet Quartett - String Quartets 2 Fulfilled By AEC 31 classicsHere, cpo's complete edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's string quartets in gripping interpretations by the Minguet Quartet continues with Vol. 2. At the young age of twelve Mendelssohn composed Twelve Fugues for String Quartet (1821), and in his String Quartet in E flat major composed shortly thereafter a fugue forms the finale. Such contrapuntal pieces pointing to Johann Sebastian Bach were regarded as proofs of compositional proficiency.