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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet Op. 12, String Quintet Op. 18, Minuetto

by Pražák Quartet, Zemlinsky Quartet, Josef Klusoñ

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String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 12 I. Adagio non troppo - Allegro non tardante 07:20
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String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 12 II. Canzonetta (Allegretto) - Più mosso 03:48
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String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 12 III. Andante espressivo – attacca 03:53
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String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 12 IV. Molto allegro e vivace 08:22
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String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 (with two violas) I. Allegro con moto 12:08
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String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 (with two violas) II. Intermezzo. Andante sostenuto 07:27
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String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 (with two violas) III. Scherzo. Allegro di molto 04:22
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String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 (with two violas) IV. Allegro vivace 06:09
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Minuetto in F Sharp Minor 05:27

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Two works completed before the composer turned 23. These “music scores of happiness” in which, according to Baillot, one allegedly finds the ‘joyous laughter of the elves’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, denotes an amazingly precocious assimilation of the avant-gardist conquests of a Beethoven who had just died. Schumann even asserted: “He is the Mozart of the 19th century; he is the brightest composer of the age, and he comprehends, with finest humour, the contradictions of our time more clearly than anyone, so that he is the first to reconcile them.”

Awards: Gramophone, ClassicsToday.com, Audiophile Audition

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released March 1, 2009

Pražák Quartet (Ensemble)
Zemlinsky Quartet (Ensemble)
Josef Klusoñ (Viola)

DSD MULTICHANNEL RECORDED IN PRAGUE, DOMOVINA STUDIO
October 20-21 (Op.12), November 23-24 (Op.18), 2008

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