Isata Kanneh-Mason - Mendelssohn [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 4870256
Barcode: 0028948702565
Release Date: 09 Aug 2024
Genre: Classical

‘Mendelssohn’ explores three facets of one of the most famous names in classical music: the glittering Piano Concerto No.1 by Felix with the London Mozart Players; the long-lost ‘Easter Sonata’ by his sister Fanny as well as transcriptions by other composers of Mendelssohn’s most famous music. In 2024, Isata featured in the critically acclaimed film ‘The Other Mendelssohn’, exploring the life of the exceptionally talented by overlooked Fanny Mendelssohn, later Fanny Hensel. In the film, they uncover the fact that the Easter Sonata, a piece lost for 150 years, was in fact written by Fanny, not Felix. Isata was the first artist to perform the work attributed to the correct composer. The album features this world premiere recording of the new urtext edition of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata. As well as beautiful solo piano transcriptions by Liszt (‘On Wings of Song’) and Rachmaninov (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’), and two of Felix’s ‘Songs Without Words’ and Fanny’s ‘Nocturne’, also for solo piano.

TRACKLIST:

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
i: Molto allegro con fuoco
ii: Andante
iii: Presto—Molto allegro e vivace

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op.61, Scherzo (arr. Rachmaninoff)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op.61, Nocturne (arr. Moszkowski)

On Wings of Song S.547 (arr. Liszt)

Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67 No. 2, Allegro leggiero in F Sharp Minor, MWV U 145 - "Lost Illusions
Lieder ohne Wrote, Op.67 No. 6, Allegro non troppo in E, MNV U 188 - “Cradle Song”

Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel)
Notturno in G minor, H337 

Ostersonate
i: Allegro assai moderato
ii: Largo e molto espresso - Poco più mosso
ii: Scherzo: Allegretto
iv: Allegro con strepito

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