Quatuor Arod – Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4 – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Arod – Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4 – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81 (2017)
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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:

1-01. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: I. Allegro assai appassionato (09:45)
1-02. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto (03:39)
1-03. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: III. Andante-attaca (06:17)
1-04. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44 No. 2: IV. Presto agitato (06:06)
1-05. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: I. Adagio-Allegro vivace (07:44)
1-06. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: II. Adagio non lento (08:23)
1-07. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: III. Intermezzo (04:58)
1-08. Quatuor Arod – String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13: IV. Presto-Adagio non lento (09:43)
1-09. Quatuor Arod – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: I. Andante in E Major (05:30)
1-10. Quatuor Arod – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: II. Scherzo in A Minor (03:10)
1-11. Quatuor Arod – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: III. Capriccio in E Minor (05:11)
1-12. Quatuor Arod – 4 Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81: IV. Fugue in E-Flat Major (04:48)
1-13. Quatuor Arod – 12 Lieder, Op. 9: I. Ist es wahr? (Arr. Aparailly for String Quartet & Voice) (01:54)

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