Danish String Quartet
Prism IV
Album · Classical · 2022
For the penultimate volume in their Prism series, the Danish String Quartet juxtaposes Beethoven’s penultimate quartet, the String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132, with Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13, written within months of Beethoven’s death and clearly a tribute to the great composer. The Danes’ approach to this music has a wonderful vitality, energy, flexibility and, where necessary, poise. When combined with the glorious acoustics of the Reitstadel Neumarkt concert hall, this is a powerful and, at times, rightly unsettling experience. The little Bach “Fugue in G Minor” makes a perfect opener to the profundities of Beethoven’s searching, questing five-movement Quartet, whose language, in turn, inspires writing of intensity and deep songfulness in the young Mendelssohn.
Prism IV
Danish String Quartet
For the penultimate volume in their Prism series, the Danish String Quartet juxtaposes Beethoven’s penultimate quartet, the String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132, with Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13, written within months of Beethoven’s death and clearly a tribute to the great composer. The Danes’ approach to this music has a wonderful vitality, energy, flexibility and, where necessary, poise. When combined with the glorious acoustics of the Reitstadel Neumarkt concert hall, this is a powerful and, at times, rightly unsettling experience. The little Bach “Fugue in G Minor” makes a perfect opener to the profundities of Beethoven’s searching, questing five-movement Quartet, whose language, in turn, inspires writing of intensity and deep songfulness in the young Mendelssohn.
