Complete String Quartets - Vol.2
MENDELSSOHN Felix (1809-1847)
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Label : ALPHA CLASSICS
Artikelnummer: ALPHA931
1 CD Spielzeit : 082:52
CHF 22.50
Mendelssohn's Quartet op.80 bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: 'The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, its overwhelming "No, not that, not her!" shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer's last completed work...'