{"product_id":"mendelssohn-kuijk-complete-string-quartets-vol-2","title":"Quatuor Van Kuijk: Complete String Quartets Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eComplete String Quartets Vol. 2\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eQuatuor Van Kuijk\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eAlpha\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e3760014199318\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2023-03-10\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes it's complete recording of Mendelssohn's string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3 and the Quartet op.80, which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: 'The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, it's overwhelming \"No, not that, not her!\" shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer's last completed work. The four movements of this \"confrontation with grief\" (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although that marking never appears in the score.' She goes on to quote Brigitte François-Sappey: 'This \"Requiem for Fanny\" might be called \"Death and the Young Woman\". As in Schubert's last two quartets, the strings shiver in tremolos over ostinato pedals, like death knells.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~I. Allegro vivace assai \u003cbr\u003e1.2 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~II. Allegro assai \u003cbr\u003e1.3 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~III. Adagio \u003cbr\u003e1.4 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~IV. Finale. Allegro molto \u003cbr\u003e1.5 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~I. Allegro assai appassionato \u003cbr\u003e1.6 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto \u003cbr\u003e1.7 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~III. Andante \u003cbr\u003e1.8 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~IV. Presto agitato \u003cbr\u003e1.9 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~I. Allegro vivace \u003cbr\u003e1.10 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~II. Scherzo. Assai leggierto vivace \u003cbr\u003e1.11 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~III. Adagio non troppo \u003cbr\u003e1.12 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~IV. Molto allegro con fuoco\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quatuor Van Kuijk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39953069867079,"sku":"43286058","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4179700-2958679.jpg?v=1711788942","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/mendelssohn-kuijk-complete-string-quartets-vol-2","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}