Mendelssohn

String Quartet No. 1 in E flat, Op. 12; No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13; No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

Tippett Quartet

Somm SOMMCD 0182 79:36 mins

This CD encompasses, in reverse order of composition, the three most striking of Mendelssohn’s six published string quartets: the stormy, distraught F minor, composed in the wake of his beloved sister Fanny’s sudden death and completed just two months before his own; the elegantly exuberant and formally innovative E flat major, written at 20; and the