{"product_id":"3760014199318-complete-string-quartets-vol-2","title":"QUATUOR VAN KUIJK | 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":"ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT LLC","offers":[{"title":"USA Supplier - 4-10 Days","offer_id":53461503901996,"sku":"al-3760014199318","price":44.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/5186\/5644\/files\/4179700-2958679.jpg?v=1784800308","url":"https:\/\/realgroovy.com\/products\/3760014199318-complete-string-quartets-vol-2","provider":"Real Groovy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}