Gramophone

MENDELSSOHN Compete String Quartets, Vol 1 (Quatuor van Kuijk)

This is a golden age for Mendelssohn string quartets, once treated with faint condescension but now recognised as arguably the greatest body of quartets between Beethoven and Bartók. Collectors can ...
Gramophone

Mendelssohn (The) Complete String Quartets

(4) Pieces for String Quartet, Movements: Fugue in A flat Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Bartholdy Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Bartholdy Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer String Quartet No. 1 ...
Forbes

Classical CD Of The Week: Mendelssohn String Quartets

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...
The Guardian

Mendelssohn: Quartets No 2 in A minor and No 3 in D major CD review – rich, warm and vital

The arrival of new cellist Brook Speltz has done little to change the rich, warm and vital sound of the Escher String Quartet in the middle of their Mendelssohn cycle. Their June release of Quartets 1 ...
The Irish Times

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Mozart and Mendelssohn | Album Review

Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor is one of the richest works in the group of six that the composer famously dedicated to Haydn in 1785. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor was written by a ...