Artist: Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout
Album: Mendelssohn: The String Quintets
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:01:30
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,08 GB

Tracklist:

01. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18, MWV R 21: I. Allegro con moto (11:56)
02. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18, MWV R 21: II. Intermezzo (08:03)
03. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18, MWV R 21: III. Scherzo (04:18)
04. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18, MWV R 21: IV. Allegro vivace (06:29)
05. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87, MWV R 33: I. Allegro vivace (10:24)
06. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87, MWV R 33: II. Allegretto scherzando (04:35)
07. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87, MWV R 33: III. Adagio e lento (10:02)
08. Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 87, MWV R 33: IV. Allegro molto vivace (05:40)

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The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Following their acclaimed recordings of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, here the quartet is joined by leading violist Timothy Ridout for an album of Mendelssohn’s two string quintets. These were written at the beginning and end of his short but remarkable compositional life. Mendelssohn composed No. 1 in 1826, shortly before the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when he was just seventeen. No. 2 was written in 1845, when he was thirty-six, a year before the première of Elijah and just two years before his death.