Mendelssohn & Walden - Without Words
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: DSL92269
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 6th October 2023
Contents
Works
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 1, op.19bArtists
Bruce Levingston (piano)Works
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 1, op.19bArtists
Bruce Levingston (piano)About
‘In recent years, Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words lived on my piano. Amidst turbulent societal change, these moving works remain a source of solace and peace. At the height of the pandemic, Dr. Kirk Payne – an old high school friend treating Covid patients – reached out. He wished to fund a beautiful memorial to those lost and those fighting the disease. With his generous support, I commissioned Price Walden, a longtime admirer of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, to compose a new set that would reflect upon our own era. Hearing Walden’s seven splendid pieces, I selected fourteen of the finest works from Mendelssohn’s collection—seven to precede the new cycle and seven to follow.
‘A superb watercolorist, Mendelssohn displays his mastery of line and color throughout these exquisite tone poems. Resonant with allusions to many of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, Walden’s cycle ventures beyond its source to imagine a new and inspired tonal canvas. Through their music, both composers – in conversation across centuries – explore the realms of memory, nature, joy, anguish, loss, gratitude, and love – eloquently communicating in a shared language too definite for words.’
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