Quatuor Arod – Mendelssohn (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

For their first recording, the Arod Quartet has selected Mendelssohn, one of the pillars of the quartet’s art, in particular his masterpiece, the Fourth Quartet in E Minor of June 1837 – more Mozartian than Beethovian in its structure and development, to be sure, even if it bears Mendelssohn’s hallmark from the first note to the last. To find the influence of the deaf genius, we have to look in the Second Quartet Op. 13 of 1827, a work written shortly after Beethoven’s death, the full extent of whose innovations Mendelssohn was only just discovering. The Arod Quartet continues its album with Four Pieces for Quartet, assembled posthumously and numbered Op. 81 by Mendelssohn’s successor at the Gewandhaus, Julius Rietz, and based on four disparate pieces from various eras. Finally, the album closes with the Arod’s re-interpretaton of a Lied, sung here by Marianne Crebassa, whose theme takes in several passages from Beethoven note for note, a real homage from the young composer to his illustrious elder. It’s worth noting that the Arod Quartet, only founded in 2013, has shot to global prominence, having performed at the Paris Philharmonic, the Louvre Auditorium, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Metz Arsenal, and further afield the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Zurich Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in Tokyo, Finland, Switzerland… the list goes on!

Tracklist

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
01. String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: I. Allegro assai appassionato
02. String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto
03. String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: III. Andante-attaca
04. String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: IV. Presto agitato
05. String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: I. Adagio-Allegro vivace
06. String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: II. Adagio non lento
07. String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: III. Intermezzo
08. String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: IV. Presto-Adagio non lento
09. 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: I. Andante in E Major
10. 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: II. Scherzo in A Minor
11. 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: III. Capriccio in E Minor
12. 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: IV. Fugue in E-Flat Major
13. 12 Lieder, Op. 9: I. Ist es wahr? (Arr. Aparailly for String Quartet & Voice)

Arod Quartet:
Jordan Victoria, violin
Alexandre Vu, violin
Corentin Apparailly, viola
Samy Rachid, cello
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano

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