Mendelssohn: Octet (orch. version); Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 (arr. Mahler)
April 28, 2016While Mozart is regularly touted as a teenage wonder, experts say there’s nothing he wrote as a teenager that could rival Mendelssohn’s Octet – a work beloved of audiences and ensembles alike. One of Decca’s earliest digital recordings was of the string orchestra version of this piece by the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. Lusciously […]