Bartholdy Quintett – Mendelssohn: String Quintets (2021) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Bartholdy Quintett – Mendelssohn: String Quintets (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Classical
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In February 2009, on a date very close to the celebration of Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday, we got together for the first time in a quintet lineup in order to perform a small concert in the form of a public rehearsal. The repertoire was rapidly chosen: it had to include at least one piece by Mendelssohn. After that successful experiment, we spontaneously decided upon the composer’s second surname for our new quintet.……..A further inherent challenge lies in those aforementioned “spontaneous chamber music parties”: the two Mendelssohn quintets are simply too difficult to be treated off-handedly. In an insufficiently rehearsed B Flat Major Quintet, for instance, the main parts remain indistinguishable amidst a tumult of sixteenth notes. Performers can become entangled in the challenging virtuoso polyphony of the A Major Quintet’s last movement. In the Scherzo, there is a tiptoe spiccato balancing act that can cause insufficiently prepared performers to tumble head over heals into the chasm (even if the second viola
manages to avoid loss of face in the first eight solo measures).
In Mendelssohn’s case, the time between a finished composition and its subsequent publication could occasionally span several years; he frequently introduced significant changes, including cuts. The reasons for such changes are often no longer clear to us today. In certain cases it is not even clear whether Mendelssohn himself was responsible for the changes, or if they were made with his approval or not. The fundamental dilemma in working with these sources is that one has to give priority either to the autograph manuscript or to the first printed edition.

Tracklist:

1-1. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro con moto (10:44)
1-2. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18: II. Intermezzo. Andante sostenuto (07:29)
1-3. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18: III. Scherzo. Allegro di molto (04:18)
1-4. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro vivace (05:48)
1-5. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18: III. Minuetto. Allegro molto (Original Manuscript version, 3rd Movement of Op. 18) (04:15)
1-6. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87: I. Allegro vivace (09:11)
1-7. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87: II. Allegretto scherzando (03:53)
1-8. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87: III. Adagio e lento (08:51)
1-9. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87: IV. Allegro molto vivace (05:07)
1-10. Bartholdy Quintett – String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87: IV. Allegro molto vivace (First Printed Edition, 4th Movement of Op. 87) (05:43)

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