Quatuors à cordes opus 44

Description

Composed at the age of twenty-six, these three Mendelssohn Quartets have gone beyond, while incorporating it, the style of the great classics, that of Haydn or Beethoven. If formal rigor remains very strong and the writing transparent, emotion and lyricism reach an intensity that is no longer that of the classics. Quartet music here takes on an astonishing symphonic dimension, while the instrumental virtuosity typical of this generation opens up a new field of expression. The Talich give us a musical moment rich in emotion and insight: emotion at the unanimity of the four musicians, who share down to the smallest detail the same vision and the same breathing, the same sense of phrasing and an exquisite sense of color; insight into the understanding of the great form and its luminous readability. The Talich focus, to truly blissful effect, on the volubility of a music that leaves the listener no minute of respite. Who could remain insensitive to the call of this vertiginous momentum, to the bite of this dazzling reading?