Mendelssohn/ New Zealand String Quartet - String Quartets 1 Nos 1 4 & 6With their often turbulent and dark hued openings, poignant slow movements, elfin Scherzos reminiscent of the music for A Midsummer Nights Dream, and tense, thrilling last movements of perpetual motion, Mendelssohns String Quartets are works of considerable emotional range and mastery of form. This first disc of the complete String Quartets ranges from the youthful No. 1, Op. 12 (actually the second of the published quartets) to the great, tragic

inspired by 250 years of letters

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because aside from a hiatus at the latter end of the 90s

where Göttsching still enjoys superstar status

and pushes aggrotech further into new territories

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It's about the listener's experience

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Alison Moyet

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