NOVO Quartet
AP447 - 1CD - 75' - Oct 16, 2026
NOVO bring together Mendelssohn, Nielsen, and Missy Mazzoli for their second album, TRACK 2.
From Næstved to Middelfart, from Svalbard to Brooklyn: the NOVO Quartet charts its course across geographies and eras. For Track 2, the four Danish musicians, laureates of the 2023 Geneva Competition, bring together Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2, a Romantic masterpiece that holds a very personal place in the ensemble's story, Nielsen's String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, fierce and harmonically daring, and Missy Mazzoli's Harp and Altar, recorded here for the first time. An album born in the far North, between ice and light, that confirms the singular voice of a quartet already prize-winning and fully committed to its own narrative.
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor Op. 13
1. I. Adagio – Allegro vivace 8’11
2. II. Adagio non lento 7’52
3. III. Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto 5’03
4. IV. Presto – Adagio non lento 9’55
Missy Mazzoli
5. Harp and Altar (string quartet and electronics) 9’01
Carl Nielsen
String Quartet No. 2 in F Minor Op. 5
6. I. Allegro non troppo ma energico 12’44
7. II. Un poco adagio 6’28
8. III. Allegretto scherzando 5’58
9. IV. Finale. Allegro appassionato 9’04
