Music Mountain 2012, #2
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Series: Music Mountain 2012 Chamber Music Concerts
Length: 01:56:01
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This program was recorded June 24, 2012 and features the Arianna String Quartet: John Mcgrosso, Violin; Joanna Mendoza, Viola; David Gillham, Violin; Kurt Bald.
ANDANTE & SCHERZO FOR STRING QUARTET, OPUS 81; Felix Mendelssohn
STRING QUARTET # 3 IN E FLAT MINOR; Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky
-Allegro sostenuto-Allegro moderato
-Allegretto vivo e scherzando
-Andante funebre e doloroso ma con moto
-Finale: Allegro non troppo e risoluto
PIANO QUINTET IN F MINOR; César Franck
-Molto moderato quasi lento;Allegro
-Lento, con molto sentimento
-Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco
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Piece Description
This program was recorded June 24, 2012 and features the Arianna String Quartet: John Mcgrosso, Violin; Joanna Mendoza, Viola; David Gillham, Violin; Kurt Bald.
ANDANTE & SCHERZO FOR STRING QUARTET, OPUS 81; Felix Mendelssohn
STRING QUARTET # 3 IN E FLAT MINOR; Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky
-Allegro sostenuto-Allegro moderato
-Allegretto vivo e scherzando
-Andante funebre e doloroso ma con moto
-Finale: Allegro non troppo e risoluto
PIANO QUINTET IN F MINOR; César Franck
-Molto moderato quasi lento;Allegro
-Lento, con molto sentimento
-Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco
Transcript
PROGRAM NOTES
ANDANTE & SCHERZO FOR STRING QUARTET, OPUS 81; Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
One reason for believing that Mendelssohn, had he lived longer, might have occupied himself with more chamber music is that we have part of a string quartet dating from the last months of his life. The miscellany published posthumously as Opus 81 contains two pieces he wrote in 1847, the year of his death. The first is a Tema (Andante) con variazioni. The simple and expressive theme is followed by ingenious and extremely attractive variations. The second, is a Scherzo in A Minor, the last movement of this kind Mendelssohn was ever to write, and one of his best. It is a work of immense spark and wit. Its charm and magic lies in its rhythmic organization and lightness of texture. The pure poetry of this scherzo equals anything Mendelssohn had achieved in his younger days. It is just a pity that it...
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