Kiwa Quartet Photo: Supplied
Malavika Gopal & Alan Molina (violins), Sophia Acheson (viola) and guest cellist for this concert Rolf Gjelsten.
Though Mendelssohn was still a teenager when he wrote this quartet, he was already an experienced composer of chamber music. He had already written his now famous String Quintet and Octet, three piano quartets, as well as several youthful string quartets.
This quartet was written just a few months after the death of Beethoven, and clearly there is influence here from the great master.
Recorded on 26 May 2019 at St. Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ Concert
Producer/Sound engineer: Darryl Stack
