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Louise Fryer explores Mendelssohn's chamber music, including his popular Octet, Op 20, written at the age of just 16. A work widely recognised as his first masterpiece, the recording is the winner of CD Review's Building a Library survey.

The programme also includes the young Kungsbacka Trio, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, performing Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, one of his most successful chamber works. A darker note is struck by the composer's final String Quartet, often interpreted as a response to the death of his beloved sister Fanny, and which was written in the final months of his own life.

Cello Sonata No 1 in B flat, Op 45
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49
The Kungsbacka Trio

String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80
The Elias String Quartet

Octet, Op 20
The winning disc from CD Review's Building a Library Survey
The Chamber Society from Lincoln Centre, New York.