{"product_id":"complete-string-quartets-vol-2-3760014199318","title":"Complete String Quartets Vol. 2","description":"After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes it's complete recording of Mendelssohn's string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3 and the Quartet op.80, which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: 'The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, it's overwhelming \"No, not that, not her!\" shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer's last completed work. The four movements of this \"confrontation with grief\" (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although that marking never appears in the score.' She goes on to quote Brigitte François-Sappey: 'This \"Requiem for Fanny\" might be called \"Death and the Young Woman\". As in Schubert's last two quartets, the strings shiver in tremolos over ostinato pedals, like death knells.'","brand":"Alpha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46205778460755,"sku":"2544550X","price":18.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4179700.jpg?v=1788990690","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/complete-string-quartets-vol-2-3760014199318","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}