Mendelssohn’s Octet – the 1959 recording by the Janáček Quartet & the Smetana Quartet.

Westminster cover for UK and US releases, licensed(?) from Supraphon

What a difference less-rushed tempos, and phrasing that breathes, make…

Please see Peter Jenkins’s comment on this…

Quatuor Ébène & Belcea Quartet record Octets by Enescu and Mendelssohn for Erato.

My first recording of Mendelssohn’s Octet was I Musici; Philips/1966…