Description
Track listing:
CD 1
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 1 (1824)
1 Allegro vivace
2 Adagio
3 Scherzo – Presto
4 Allegro moderato
Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 2 (1825)
5 Allegro molto
6 Adagio
7 Intermezzo – Allegro moderato
8 Allegro molto vivace
CD 2
Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3 (1826)
1 Allegro molto
2 Andante
3 Allegro molto
4 Finale – Allegro vivace
Piano Sextet in D major, Op. (posth.) 110 (1824)
5 Allegro vivace
6 Adagio
7 Menuetto & Trio
8 Allegro vivace
CD 3
Sonata in F minor for violin & fortepiano,
Op. 4 (1823)
1 Adagio – Allegro moderato
2 Poco adagio
3 Allegro agitato
Sonata in E flat major for clarinet &
fortepiano (1824)
4 Adagio-Allegro moderato
5 Andante
6 Allegro moderato
Sonata in C minor for viola & fortepiano (1824)
7 Adagio
8 Menuetto. Allegro molto
9 Andante con Variazioni
THE YOUNG FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Piano Quartets, Op. 1-3
Sextet, Op. 110
Clarinet, Violin & Viola Sonatas
The Atlantis Trio
Penelope Crawford, fortepiano
Jaap Schröder, violin
Enid Sutherland, cello
Configuration: Digital Download (320 kbps MP3)
Available: Dec 2009
Recorded:
2001 (Sextet), 2007 (Quartets, Violin Sonata), 2008 (sonatas for clarinet, viola)
Booklet: 28 Page
Features:
• First release devoted to the complete
works for chamber ensemble with
fortepiano by the young Felix
Mendelssohn.
• First complete edition using period instruments featuring the Atlantis Ensemble, directed
by legendary Dutch violinist, Jaap Schröder.
• Booklet essays by pre-eminent Mendelssohn scholar and biographer, R. Larry Todd.
• Total playing time: 3 hours 18 minutes.
