Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets

Felix’s impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister’s death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frames it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work, and Fanny’s own important contribution to the genre.

CDA68330 75 minutes 10 seconds

‘Deploying their familiar finesse (immaculate tuning and ensemble) and care for detail, the Takács do brother and sister proud … [they] create a magical sense of time suspended at the climax of t ...
‘The Takács Quartet has sustained an admiring following through its changes of personnel down the years, and their exceptional precision of tuning and ensemble, especially at full-tilt Mendelssohnian ...
‘Their performance of Fanny Mendelssohn's E flat major String Quartet is an eloquent one … this [album] is well worth it for the combination of brother and sister’ (BBC Record Review)