Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Klavierkonzerte Nr.1 & 2 (CD)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster

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+Capriccio brillant op. 22; Rondo brillant op. 29; Serenade & Allegro giocoso op. 43

Artists:: Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 1997
Item number:: 8164580
UPC/EAN:: 0034571169699
Release date:: 4.8.1997
Series:: Romantic Piano Concerto

*** The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.17

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This disc brings together, for the first time to our knowledge, all of Mendelssohn's published works for piano and orchestra. Mendelssohn was regarded as one of the foremost pianists of his day, Clara Schumann describing him as 'the dearest pianist of all'. While his works for the instrument are by no means as numerous as those of, say, Liszt or Chopin, they are models of the nineteenth-century genre and filled with melodious charm.

The First Concerto is actually the earliest work on this disc, despite its opus number, and is the work that Liszt sight-read from a scribbled score to an astonished Mendelssohn when the two composers met in Paris. The Second Concerto saw its premiere— appropriately enough given the orchestra performing on this disc—in Birmingham during the festival of 1837. The remaining three works find Mendelssohn in light-hearted mood, showing off his knack for melody and unaffected charm to the full.

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'Once again we have Stephen Hough lavishing his exciting gifts upon a splendid Mendelssohn programme. I cannot envisage this splendidly recorded disc being absent from the year's honours list' (Classic CD)

'Glitteringly performed' (The Daily Mail)

'Biting intensity, yet with freer expressiveness and bigger contrasts he also brings out extra poetry and … a sparkling wit ... A constant delight' (The Guardian)

'An impressive achievement all round' (Piano International)