After exploring the quartets of Shostakovich, Schubert and many other composers, the Mandelring Quartet has embarked on a project of performing and recording all of Felix Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings. Volume 1 includes the quartet 'Without Opus', and quartets op. 12 and op. 13. This is the first in a CD series that will include both quintets (with Gunter Teuffel, viola) and the octet (with the Quartetto di Cremona). - mandelringquartett.de (Translated from German)