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Being Mendelssohn: Disc 2 (2009)

<em>Being Mendelssohn:</em> Disc 2

Disc II features two quintessential works from Mendelssohn’s oeuvre. Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream endures among the composer’s most beloved creations; the Octet, composed when Mendelssohn was only sixteen years old, testifies to the miraculous precocity of the young prodigy. In between these comes the Opus 18 Number 6 String Quartet by Beethoven, who served as one of Mendelssohn’s lifelong artistic models. Beethoven’s groundbreaking Opus 18 quartets, with which the young firebrand from Bonn first announced himself to Vienna’s musical community, pushed the boundaries of Classicism and predicted the Romantic age.

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Selections

Selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1843), arr. for piano, four hands | Felix Mendelssohn (10:03)

  • Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
  • Wu Han, Piano

String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6 (1798–1800) | Ludwig van Beethoven (25:11)

  • Pacifica Quartet

Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, op. 20 (1825) | Felix Mendelssohn (31:42)

  • Sibbi Bernhardsson, Violin
  • David Finckel, Cello
  • Simin Ganatra, Violin
  • Geoff Nuttall, Violin
  • Lesley Robertson, Viola
  • Masumi Per Rostad, Viola
  • Scott St. John, Violin
  • Brandon Vamos, Cello

Artists

  • Sibbi Bernhardsson, Violin
  • David Finckel, Cello
  • Simin Ganatra, Violin
  • Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
  • Geoff Nuttall, Violin
  • Pacifica Quartet, String Quartet
  • Lesley Robertson, Viola
  • Masumi Per Rostad, Viola
  • Scott St. John, Violin
  • Brandon Vamos, Cello
  • Wu Han, Piano

<em>Being Mendelssohn:</em> Disc 2 Total Time: 66:56
Discs: 1
Price: $15.00
Year Recorded: 2009