National Sundays / Marie-Ange Nguci

A sextet? A chamber concerto, rather, which Felix Mendelssohn completed in about ten days, in the spring of 1824 – he was only fifteen years old. The music flows like pure water, the general tone, both light and virtuoso, draws an evanescent Andante, escaped from the generous muse of an adolescent who would say: "I would gladly exchange my virtues for the sins of Mozart." Clarity, transparency, generosity are also the qualities of the third of Dv...