Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Music
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10238
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 13th May 2022
Contents
Works
Das Jahr (The Year)Introduction and Capriccio in B minor
Notturno in G minor
Notturno napolitano in B minor
Artists
Martina Frezzotti (piano)Works
Das Jahr (The Year)Introduction and Capriccio in B minor
Notturno in G minor
Notturno napolitano in B minor
Artists
Martina Frezzotti (piano)About
Hensel’s music reflects her deep reverence for Bach and Beethoven, but it also exhibits the fine craftsmanship and lyricism associated with her brother’s music, and her own experimental and inventive approach to form and content.
She allowed her music to be published only in the year before her early death at the age of 41 – which foreshadowed and probably hastened her brother’s demise – though in fact several of her pieces had already appeared in print under her brother’s name.
Martina Frezzoti’s choice of repertoire focuses on the period of 1838 to 1841, bookended by a pair of dreamy nocturnes. By this point in her life Hensel had been married to the painter Wilhelm Hensel for almost a decade and had produced dozens of Lieder and short piano pieces, as well as a string quartet (one of the first women to do so), concert arias, choral songs and a cantata. The album’s major work is a cycle of character pieces based on the months of the year, and ingeniously unified by leitmotifs which run through the 13 pieces (including a final chorale). The ‘Spring Song’ for May bears comparison with Felix’s much more famous example, and several other pieces in the cycle could easily pass for one of his Songs without Words.
Born in 1986, Martina Frezzotti studied with both Lazar Berman and Elisso Virsaladze, and this Russian training manifests itself in both the power and the expressive sensitivity of her playing. She has retained strong performing connections in Russia and Ukraine, as well as her native Italy. This highly appealing collection marks her recorded debut.
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