Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets - Vinyl Edition

Felix Mendelssohn’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 introduces it with an equally committed account of Fanny’s own important contribution to the genre.

This LP is part of Hyperion’s 2025 Vinyl Edition. For the CD or download version of this album—both of which additionally include Felix Mendelssohn’s early Op 13 String Quartet in A minor—please » Click here.

LPA68330 44 minutes 44 seconds (2 discs)

‘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)
‘An album of real spirit and vigor … it’s a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded’ (The Arts Fuse, USA)