Browse: Mendelssohn - String Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18

Fine, stylish performances of both these wonderful works — BBC Music Magazine More…

the Doric Quartet with Timothy Ridout make light of [No. 1's] formidable difficulties. Their very effective pianissimo playing stands them in particularly good stead in the quietly scurrying... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Anyone wanting modern-instrument recordings of two of Mendelssohn's finest chamber works could not better this BIS-SACD. The performances are full of sparkle and vitality. — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

Between joy and petulance, effervescent rhythms and melodic generosity, this acute and electric reading is immediately seductive…the Mandelring are lacking in neither character nor determination — Diapason, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If I had to name my personal 'Record of the Year' it would have to be Hausmusik's sensational coupling of Mendelssohn's Octet and First String Quintet. — CD Review More…

The performers dig into those qualities for all they’re worth. They don’t play it safe, but step on the gas and risk high rewards at high speed when appropriate...There’s a strong sense of unified... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The A major first quintet, Op 18... [is] scored for the Mozartian quintet lineup with two violas rather than the two cellos that Boccherini and later Schubert favoured, it inhabits an ingratiatingly... — The Guardian, 6th June 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…