Tracks1.1 Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major I. Adagio ma non troppo 1.2 Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major II. Allegretto 1.3 Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major III. Romanze 1.4 Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major IV. Allegro molto vivace 1.5 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor Op.80 I. Allegro vivace assai – Presto 1.6 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor Op.80 II. Allegro assai 1.7 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor Op.80 III. Adagio 1.8 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor Op.80 IV. Finale: Allegro molto 1.9 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13 I. Adagio – Allegro vivace 1.10 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13 II. Adagio non lento 1.11 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13 III. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto 1.12 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13 IV. Presto – Adagio non lento
NotesFelix Mendelssohn's impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister Fanny's deathin 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frame it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work, and Fanny's own important contribution to the genre.