Browse: Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1

The Van Kuijk marry high technical polish (tuning and ensemble virtually flawless), close attention to Mendelssohn’s detailed markings and a spirit of youthful, spontaneous ardour. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the Cecilia prove to be compelling advocates. They find a fine balance between the composer’s skittish qualities and his tenderer side, resulting in notably open-hearted readings. Their tremolos…seem... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

Throughout, you’re aware of characterful individual contributions within an impeccable ensemble…this is a delectable addition to the Mendelssohn quartet discography — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016 More…

Their playing is very much like a concert performance -exciting, projected, perhaps a bit risky. — American Record Guide More…

a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded live at Washington’s Library of Congress, the highlight here is Rudolf Serkin’s exhilarating contribution to Schumann’s Piano Quintet. Elsewhere, dry acoustics expose some roughness... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…