Domus - Mendelssohn: The Piano Quartets (2008)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: Sept. 25, 2019

The boy Mendelssohn's precocity never ceases to amaze: not even Mozart as a teenager was so complete a master of the craft. These quartets contain some of the finest music he wrote during those extraordinary years, dating as they do from 1822 (when he was 13) to 1825. There are many of the characteristics that were always to mark his music: the instinct, shared among nineteenth-century composers virtually only with Weber and Berlioz, for the fleeting scherzo, including the somewhat elliptical, quasi-nocturnal scherzo; the gift for tender, expressive melody, not yet tinged with the sentimentality that could afflict him when the manner overcame the matter; and, which is less often emphasized, the extraordinary instinct for structure. He was well-schooled by Zelter, but nothing in the old man's book could have accounted for the originality which Mendelssohn showed all his life, already in these works, for expressing melodic and harmonic material in surprising, novel, beautifully effective forms.
The Domus players respond quickly and sensitively to the considerable demands put upon them. Susan Tomes is fleet of finger, rather too fleet and light for the recording engineers here and there, for instance, near the start of the First Quartet; but in general the balance is fair, and takes trouble to make musical sense of such an odd passage as the central section of the Scherzo of No. 1, when viola, cello and piano left-hand dialogue eloquently. The beautiful Intermezzo of No. 2 is charmingly played, lightly and without over-emphasis. The tougher movements, in which Mendelssohn is setting out quite a complicated musical argument, are clearly articulated. This is an attractive set of performances of some marvellous music. – John Warrack

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Track List:

01. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1: Allegro vivace [0:08:14.08]
02. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1: Adagio [0:07:14.22]
03. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1: Scherzo, Presto [0:05:18.70]
04. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1: Allegro moderato [0:05:02.55]
05. Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 2: Allegro molto [0:09:04.25]
06. Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 2: Adagio [0:05:40.13]
07. Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 2: Intermezzo, Allegro moderato [0:02:26.12]
08. Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 2: Allegro molto vivace [0:05:27.08]
09. Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3: Allegro molto [0:08:52.60]
10. Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3: Andante [0:06:16.42]
11. Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3: Allegro molto [0:05:24.33]
12. Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3: Allegro vivace [0:10:14.15]

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