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Article: Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20; Bruch: Octet in B flat major.(Sound recording review)
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Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20; Bruch: Octet in B flat major. Kodaly Quartet, Auer Quartet. Naxos 8.557270.
Like so many musical geniuses, Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy, producing his famous Octet at the age of sixteen. It's filled with the youthful high spirts we would expect, yet it's also got the captivating magic and maturity so eloquently and zestfully displayed in his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which he wrote around the same time in 1825.
Coupled with the Mendelssohn Octet is Max Bruch's Octet, composed in the year of Bruch's death, 1920. Bruch's music was something of a throwback to the traditional music of the ...