Written late in his brief life, Felix Mendelssohn wasn't satisfied with his String Quintet No. 2 from 1845. He said, "Though not an art work in the highest sense, it is still an exercise in forms and ...

Music by Felix Mendelssohn was on the program when several members of the New York Philharmonic got together recently to play some chamber music. From a concert they gave at the 92nd Street Y in New ...

(Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Leonard Pennario, and others; RCA LSC-3048). Perhaps no one should shine forth as brilliantly as Heifetz does in chamber music, but the results are irresistible just ...

The quintet play an arrangement of the second movement of Mendelssohn's String Quartet, Op. 12, No. 2. It's from a new CD on the Chandos label.