Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

(4) Pieces for String Quartet, Movements: Capriccio in E minor New Zealand Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Felix Mendelssohn, Composer New Zealand Quartet (4) Pieces for ...

Mendelssohn's music doesn't get nearly enough respect. Sure, he's regularly listed among the Romantic masters, but often with a condescending asterisk suggesting that his music is just a little too ...

When the 28-year-old Mendelssohn composed his three Op 44 string quartets during 1837-38, life was going exceedingly well. In his private life, 1837 was the year he married and 1838 the birth year of ...

Thu 8 Sep 2016 11.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10.25 EST The Escher String Quartet began their Mendelssohn series last year with the first of the number quartets, Op 12 and the second of the ...

The Tinalley String Quartet aspires to be the first Australian quartet to record the complete catalogue of string quartets by the great romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn. The first of three ...

Two prodigious composers who lived half a century apart are featured by the Utah Symphony string quartet in this week's online, 30-minute On Demand chamber concert stream. Movements from Mozart and ...

The arrival of new cellist Brook Speltz has done little to change the rich, warm and vital sound of the Escher String Quartet in the middle of their Mendelssohn cycle. Their June release of Quartets 1 ...

It seems only yesterday that the Pacifica Quartet burst on the scene, yet the youthful ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season with debuts in Japan and in London’s Wigmore Hall–and by ...

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Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn: String quartet in E flat major (1834). Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet no. 1 in E flat major op. 12; String quartet no. 2 in A minor op. 13. The Asasello String Quartet's ...

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...