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Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op 80
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Performers: Calidore Quartet
Recording date: 03 December 2016
Date of broadcast: 28 December 2017
His last major work sums up Mendelssohn's life: both vibrant and tragic. Completed in October 1847, it's dedicated to his sister Fanny who'd died the previous May. Felix was dead that November.
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Performers: Calidore Quartet
Recording date: 03 December 2016
Date of broadcast: 28 December 2017