An exciting new collaboration between Somm Recordings and the Tippett
Quartet begins with striking performances of early and late string
quartets by Mendelssohn. Fiercely imbued with the spirit of Beethoven,
Mendelssohn’s Opp. 12, 13 and 80 quartets brim and boil with an
innovation, dynamism, emotional sincerity and technical flair some would
deny the composer. These deeply felt performances from the Tippett
Quartet present Mendelssohn in a new light and challenge Hans von
Bülow’s notorious observation that he “began as a genius and ended as a
talent.” All three quartets – Op. 13, composed when Mendelssohn was just
18-years-old, and Op. 80, his last major work, completed two months
before his death at 38 – speak movingly of loss. Op. 12 laments the
passing of Beethoven, Op. 13 regrets unrequited love, Op. 80 an
inconsolable response to the death of Mendelssohn’s sister, Fanny. The
earlier works, the Tippett Quartet says, “command an astounding
expressive power and technical prowess with all the exuberance and
intensity of a young man searching for the sublime and the profound.”
Mendelssohn’s last significant musical utterance, the valedictory Op.
80, “turns his sense of loss, grief and, most of all, anger into a truly
sublime work of art”. “When we were recording them,” says the Tippett
Quartet, “it felt like we were playing brand new pieces by a living
composer, not works that carry, and have become burdened by, the weight
of tradition”. These poignant, powerful, emotionally raw, musically rich
performances make persuasive claim for music of passion, poetry and
profundity and offer fresh insights into Mendelssohn as he was meant to
be played.
An exciting new collaboration between Somm Recordings and the Tippett
Quartet begins with striking performances of early and late string
quartets by Mendelssohn. Fiercely imbued with the spirit of Beethoven,
Mendelssohn’s Opp. 12, 13 and 80 quartets brim and boil with an
innovation, dynamism, emotional sincerity and technical flair some would
deny the composer. These deeply felt performances from the Tippett
Quartet present Mendelssohn in a new light and challenge Hans von
Bülow’s notorious observation that he “began as a genius and ended as a
talent.” All three quartets – Op. 13, composed when Mendelssohn was just
18-years-old, and Op. 80, his last major work, completed two months
before his death at 38 – speak movingly of loss. Op. 12 laments the
passing of Beethoven, Op. 13 regrets unrequited love, Op. 80 an
inconsolable response to the death of Mendelssohn’s sister, Fanny. The
earlier works, the Tippett Quartet says, “command an astounding
expressive power and technical prowess with all the exuberance and
intensity of a young man searching for the sublime and the profound.”
Mendelssohn’s last significant musical utterance, the valedictory Op.
80, “turns his sense of loss, grief and, most of all, anger into a truly
sublime work of art”. “When we were recording them,” says the Tippett
Quartet, “it felt like we were playing brand new pieces by a living
composer, not works that carry, and have become burdened by, the weight
of tradition”. These poignant, powerful, emotionally raw, musically rich
performances make persuasive claim for music of passion, poetry and
profundity and offer fresh insights into Mendelssohn as he was meant to
be played.
excelente album, gracias !
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