Boston's young Jupiter String Quartet offered a convincing two-work program with its Britten/Shostakovich release and does it again here with two chamber music swan songs: the comparatively little-heard and strikingly grim String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80, of Felix Mendelssohn and the roughly jocular String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, of Beethoven. The group has members of the Cleveland Quartet in its lineage of training, and the combination of warmth and precise ensemble work in its playing may bring to mind that ...
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Boston's young Jupiter String Quartet offered a convincing two-work program with its Britten/Shostakovich release and does it again here with two chamber music swan songs: the comparatively little-heard and strikingly grim String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80, of Felix Mendelssohn and the roughly jocular String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, of Beethoven. The group has members of the Cleveland Quartet in its lineage of training, and the combination of warmth and precise ensemble work in its playing may bring to mind that ensemble. The reading of the Beethoven, however, does not resemble the Cleveland's venerable version. The Jupiter's tempi are brisk indeed in the outer movements, to the point where the treatment of the opening movement especially is difficult to reconcile with Beethoven's Allegretto marking. The sudden stops and rhythmic interjections that give this late Beethoven quartet its unique flavor are pushed in the direction of ornament. It's an odd interpretation, but the group delivers...
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