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CD of the Week: Mendelssohn's Op. 44 from the Cecilia String Quartet

By Trevor Harris
Published December 25, 2015 at 7:17 AM CST
Cecilia String Quartet

This week's CD of the Week on Classical 90.5 is the new release from the Toronto-based Cecilia String Quartet.

For their latest release the quartet focuses on a pair of string quartets that Felix Mendelssohn wrote in 1838 while honeymooning in Germany's Black Forest. Trevor Harris recently interviewed the quartet's cellist Rachel Desoer. They talked about working on your honeymoon, the quartet's concerts for special needs students and how the group selects their concert and performance repertoire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sokV8t0omo&list=PLZOZtSJleYuRVj4xQ2KtbiHA2k3W8SgjO&index=4

Listen for music from the CD of the Week on Trevor Harris Morning Classics weekdays between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. on Classical 90.5.

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Trevor Harris
Trevor serves as KBIA’s weekday morning host for classical music. He has been involved with local radio since 1990, when he began volunteering as a music and news programmer at KOPN, Columbia's community radio station. Before joining KBIA, Trevor studied social work at Mizzou and earned a masters degree in geography at the University of Alabama. He has worked in community development and in urban and bicycle/pedestrian planning, and recently served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia with his wife, Lisa Groshong. An avid bicycle commuter and jazz fan, Trevor has cycled as far as Colorado and pawed through record bins in three continents.
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