Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have intrigued Mendelssohn; but the relationship between the last two, a flattened sixth against a fifth, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 violinist Christian Tetzlaff has for some time been among the world’s outstanding soloists, a musician for whom intelligence and integrity stand on at least as high a footing as passion and tonal ...

Penetrating playing of three distinct works from the mighty Mendelssohn. Album of the Weekend, 19-20 April 2014. Among the many good String Quartets currently on the scene, the Berlin-based Artemis ...

More info: the program includes Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s String Quartet in E-flat Major and Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 2 in F major Pacifica ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

About a year after releasing its album Felix Mendelssohn String Quartets, Chinese ensemble Amber Quartet had a talk introducing and reviewing the recording of the album at the National Center for the ...

Amber Quartet performs at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on June 19 featuring Felix Mendelssohn's music works for string quartets.[Photo provided to China Daily] For Chinese audiences, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of Mendelssohn’s six quartets, the three here come from noticeably different periods – the teenage years (No 2), the ...