The “poetic, charismatic and virtuosic” (Sunday Telegraph) Elias Quartet illuminates the final string quartets of three masters of the genre. Haydn’s unfinished D Minor Quartet conveys the composer’s power and ingenuity at his advanced age; Britten’s ephemeral, distinctive Quartet No. 3 contains a multitude of colors and contrasts; and Mendelssohn’s F Minor Quartet exudes anguish and poetic melancholy, having been written soon after the death of his sister Fanny and just two months before his own passing.
Swan Songs
Haydn Quartet in D Minor, Op. 103
Britten Quartet No. 3, Op. 94
Mendelssohn Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
