String Quartet in E flat major (Mendelssohn)
from Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets (CDA68330)
1 Adagio ma non troppo [4'38]
2 Allegretto [3'45]
3 Romanze [6'04]
4 Allegro molto vivace [5'42]
20 minutes 9 seconds 4 tracks
‘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)