Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN 20218
Release: 2022
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18
01. I. Allegro con moto
02. II. Intermezzo
03. III. Scherzo
04. IV. Allegro vivace
String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87
05. I. Allegro vivace
06. II. Allegretto scherzando
07. III. Adagio e lento
08. IV. Allegro molto vivace
The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Following their acclaimed recordings of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, here the quartet is joined by leading violist Timothy Ridout for an album of Mendelssohn’s two string quintets. These were written at the beginning and end of his short but remarkable compositional life. Mendelssohn composed No. 1 in 1826, shortly before the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when he was just seventeen. No. 2 was written in 1845, when he was thirty-six, a year before the première of Elijah and just two years before his death.