Mendelssohn - Songs without Words Vol.2
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN20267
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 14th April 2023
Contents
Works
A Midsummer Night's DreamSongs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 1, op.19b
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 8, op.102
Artists
Peter Donohoe (piano)Works
A Midsummer Night's DreamSongs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 1, op.19b
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 8, op.102
Artists
Peter Donohoe (piano)About
For the first volume, rather than approaching them chronologically or as complete sets, Peter Donohoe selected pieces to build a satisfying programme. Here he does the same with all the pieces that remain. In addition, the album features three free-standing significant works. The 17 Variations sérieuses, from 1841, is one of Mendelssohn’s largest solo piano works, and was published in an album to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven. The Phantasie on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ is a much earlier work, based on the Irish folk melody that – with added words by the Irish poet Thomas Moore – took Europe by storm in the early 1800s. The album concludes with Rachmaninov’s piano transcription of the Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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