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EPILOGUE - FIRST RECORDING FOR MIRÓ ON OXINGALE -INCLUDES SCHUBERT'S FAMOUS QUINTET AND
MENDELSSOHN'S STRING QUARTET IN F MINOR


"The Texas-based Miró Quartet finds an ideal match in Mendelssohn's final string quartet (Op. 80 in F-minor). The performance has the feel of astonishment and probing exploration. The opening movement comes off with taut alacrity, and the Allegro is keenly phrased. The Adagio sets off its insistent, congested chords with narrative amplitude. An exciting Finale is by turns feverish and terse."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"World-class musicians"
--ABC News World News Tonight on the Miró Quartet


Oxingale is proud to release the first recording collaboration of the acclaimed Miró Quartet and famed cellist Matt Haimovitz in a CD titled Epilogue. Together, Miró and Haimovitz perform Schubert's ethereal C major String Quintet (D 956), and the Miró Quartet alone performs Mendelssohn's stormy, final String Quartet in F minor (Op. 80).

Epilogue explores two strikingly different works, each written in the last months in the lives of two contemporary early Romantic composers, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn.
1 Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, op. 80 - Allegro vivace assai â
2 Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, op. 80 - Allegro assai
3 Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, op. 80 - Adagio
4 Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, op. 80 - Finale: Allegro molto
5 Schubert: Quintet in C Major, D956 - Allegro ma non troppo
6 Schubert: Quintet in C Major, D956 - Adagio
7 Schubert: Quintet in C Major, D956 - Scherzo: Presto '" Trio: A
8 Schubert: Quintet in C Major, D956 - Allegretto