France's Quatuor Arod has made something of a specialty of Mendelssohn since coming on the scene in 2013, and the result is an unusual group of Mendelssohn string quartet performances, diverging from both German and English models. The members of the quartet have said that they see these works as intimate, reflective of the composer's life, and that's how they play them: with intensity, passion, power, and a good deal of speed laid on in the outer movements. Start your sampling with the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, ...
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France's Quatuor Arod has made something of a specialty of Mendelssohn since coming on the scene in 2013, and the result is an unusual group of Mendelssohn string quartet performances, diverging from both German and English models. The members of the quartet have said that they see these works as intimate, reflective of the composer's life, and that's how they play them: with intensity, passion, power, and a good deal of speed laid on in the outer movements. Start your sampling with the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, where the Arod could not diverge more strongly from existing interpretations. In their reading, the model for this A minor quartet is the vast late one of Beethoven, the String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Mendelssohn's attitude toward Beethoven might be regarded as a lifelong effort to understand his accomplishment: largely unsuccessful, but no less interesting for that. Mendelssohn had no answer for Beethoven's vast, modal slow movement, but the outer movements, with the...
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