{"product_id":"complete-string-quartets-vol-2","title":"Complete String Quartets Vol. 2","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAfter 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.'\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Audio Cd, March 10, 2023","offer_id":45914014220479,"sku":"0e6c912c-85a9-4e51-9543-8acba89f85d6","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/491a8f4dda6b2f076dd328ab62a8d864.jpg?v=1785053720","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/complete-string-quartets-vol-2","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}