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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quintet No. 2, String Quartet No. 2

by Kocian Quartet, Josef Klusoň

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The String Quartet Op.13, written by a gifted 18-year-old, let us discover an astonishing ‘music of happiness’ in which, according to Pierre Marie Baillot, one would again find the “joyous laughter of the elves of A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, whilst denoting a precocious assimilation of the avantgardist conquests of the recently-deceased Beethoven. The Quintet with two violas (1845), with its pre-Brahmsian breadth of phrase, alternates splendours close to the Violin Concerto Op. 64 and autumn strolls; it also reveals the malaise of an overworked creator who did not have the time, before his premature death, to revise the finale, which he did not like.

Awards: 5 by Diapason

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released April 1, 2009

Kocian Quartet (Ensemble)
Josef Klusoň (Viola)

DSD MULTICHANNEL RECORDED IN PRAGUE, DOMOVINA STUDIO
December 19-20, 2008 (Op.87), January 18-19, 2009

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