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Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets - Takács Quartet

Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets - Takács Quartet

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String Quartet in E flat major[20'09]Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
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Adagio ma non troppo[4'38]
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Allegretto[3'45]
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Romanze[6'04]
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Allegro molto vivace[5'42]
String Quartet in F minor Op 80[24'35]Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
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Allegro vivace assai – Presto[7'13]
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Allegro assai[4'16]
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Adagio[7'25]
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Finale: Allegro molto[5'41]
String Quartet in A minor Op 13[30'26]Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
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Adagio – Allegro vivace[8'13]
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Adagio non lento[7'46]
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Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto[5'06]
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Presto – Adagio non lento[9'21]
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.
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