Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)

MVT I
0:00 - Introduction
0:13 - Fragments of theme 1
EXPOSITION
0:31 - Theme 1, F minor
0:56 - Transition to theme 2
1:13 - Theme 2, Ab major
2:16 - DEVELOPMENT
2:35 - Fragments from theme 1
2:59 - Arrival in D major
3:28 - Chromatic harmonies leading into the recapitulation
RECAPITULATION
3:53 - Theme 1, F minor
4:17 - Transition to theme 2
4:51 - Theme 2, F major
5:51 - Opening material reappears
6:36 - Coda - Presto

MVT II
7:01 - Scherzo
8:55 - Trio
9:59 - Scherzo
10:55 - Coda using material from the Trio section

MVT III
11:26 - Theme A, Ab major
12:39 - Transition to theme B
14:00 - Theme B, Eb major
14:39 - Theme A, Ab major
15:53 - Theme B, E major
17:24 - Theme B, Ab major
18:20 - Theme A, Ab major

MVT IV
EXPOSITION
19:22 - Theme 1, F minor
19:46 - Transition to theme 2
19:58 - Theme 2, Ab major, with imitation between instruments
DEVELOPMENT
20:24 - All instruments alternate between playing tremolos and various permutations of theme 1
22:00 - A new motif is introduced
22:18 - Tremolos come back again building energy towards the recap
RECAPITULATION
22:42 - Theme 1, F minor, this time with triplets in the first violin
22:58 - Theme 2, F minor
24:02 - Coda

Performed by the Artemis Quartet.