Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn (Fanny): String Quartets - Takács Quartet

String Quartet in E flat major[20'09]Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
1 Adagio ma non troppo[4'38]
2 Allegretto[3'45]
3 Romanze[6'04]
4 Allegro molto vivace[5'42]

String Quartet in F minor Op 80[24'35]Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
5 Allegro vivace assai – Presto[7'13]
6 Allegro assai[4'16]
7 Adagio[7'25]
8 Finale: Allegro molto[5'41]

String Quartet in A minor Op 13[30'26]Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
9 Adagio – Allegro vivace[8'13]
10 Adagio non lento[7'46]
11 Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto[5'06]
12 Presto – Adagio non lento[9'21]

Felix’s impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister’s death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frames it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work, and Fanny’s own important contribution to the genre.