Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet No.3 - Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1, Piano Quintet The Budapest String Quartet & Rudolf Serkin

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847): String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1:
• 1 Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1: I. Molto allegro vivace 09:48
• 2 Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1: II. Menuetto. Un poco allegretto 05:49
• 3 Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1: III. Andante espressivo con moto 06:13
• 4 Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1: IV. Presto con brio 07:08
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1:
• 5 Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1: I. Introduzione. Andante espressivo - Allegro 08:15
• 6 Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1: II. Scherzo. Presto - Intermezzo 03:54
• 7 Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1: III. Adagio 05:54
• 8 Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No. 1: IV. Presto 05:34
• Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44:
• 9 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: I. Allegro brillante 08:43
• 10 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: II. In modo d'una marcia 09:29
• 11 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: III. Scherzo. Molto vivace 04:39
• 12 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: IV. Allegro ma non troppo 06:57
• Total Runtime 01:22:23

Info for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet No.3 - Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1, Piano Quintet

In these years of 1837-42, Mendelssohn was at the height of his humanist glory, concurrently violinist, violist, pianist, composer, conductor (of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig), still a painter in his already too-rare spare time, and a newlywed… ‘At the moment, everything comes so easily and so nicely under my pen’, he wrote the Opus 44 Quartets with their radiant, virtuoso allegros and slow movements tinged with nostalgia – irresistible ‘songs without words’ for strings. The Schumann’s Op.41 String Quartets and Piano Quintet Op.47 are considered as finest compositions and major works of nineteenth-century chamber music. This Op.44 revolutionized the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially romantic genre.

Rudolf Serkin, piano
Budapest String Quartet:
Joseph Roisman, violin
Alexander Schneider, violin
Boris Kroyt, viola
Mischa Schneider, cello

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