Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime.
This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label (OC528) presents a performance of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6. Much of Mendelssohn’s chamber music is gracefully imaginative and classic in style, but this quartet was composed following the death of his sister Fanny, resulting in something of an autobiographical musical lament.