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Mendelssohn- Quaret Op. 80, 3rd Movement, Adagio: Cecilia Quartet

2,203 views · Published 6 June 2012 · 8:51 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: CBC Music · 2012 · Music

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The 10th Banff International String Quartet Competition featured the following Quartets: Quatuor Zaide, Cecilia Quartet, Afiara Quartet, Amaryllis Quartet, Asasello Quartet, Atrium Quartet, Hausmann Quartet, Noga Quartet and the Peresson Quartet. This is the Cecilia Quartet. 

Written just months before his own death and shortly after the passing of his beloved sister, Fanny, Op. 80 is widely considered Mendelssohn’s most intense and personal work. While the rest of the quartet is filled with "Sturm und Drang" (storm and stress), the Adagio offers a profound, elegiac moment of reflection - a "song without words" that captures the depths of human sorrow and lyrical grace.

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