5410939759125

Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte (2CD)

Stephane De May

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: ADW75912

Format Details: 2CD

Release Date:  01 May 2020

Label:  Pavane

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5410939759125

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

  • Description

    To record the complete sets of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words represents a real challenge, with more than two hours of music. The prodigious pianist Stéphane De May shares his passion delicately and thoughtfully through his sensitive performance of these works.

    Mendelssohn's aim was, analogous to the lieder for voice and piano, comparable to those by Schubert and Schumann and others to compose them for piano solo, aiming at making sing the piano, thus creating lyrical pieces of a new genre which befell a great success during the second half of the nineteenth century. Thus, the piano is called to simultaneously bring forth a melody and to provide its accompaniment, the two functions being intimately intermingled: one must sing with the fingers. The musician becomes a poet, finding himself in a situation of telling a story which is already there.

    There are in all eight cahiers, not forty-eight little pieces which resemble each other, but they all have their own identity, their own particular evocative power and are proof of a richness of inspiration.

    A profound positive feeling, made up of enthusiasm, of happiness, but also simple beauty issues forth from all this music. It unleashes a surge, a joy of life, even if it also comprises all the characteristics of German romanticism, quite easily tormented.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 2. Op. 19 No. 1: Andante con moto in E Major
      • 3. MWV U 86 "Sweet Remembrance"
      • 4. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 5. Op. 19 No. 2: Andante espressivo in A Minor
      • 6. MWV U 80
      • 7. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 8. Op. 19 No. 3: Molto allegro in A
      • 9. MWV U 89 "Hunting Song"
      • 10. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 11. Op. 19 No. 4: Moderato in A
      • 12. MWV U 73
      • 13. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 14. Op. 19 No. 5: Agitato in F Sharp Minor
      • 15. MWV U 90 "Restlessness"
      • 16. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 17. Op. 19 No. 6: Andante sostenuto in G Minor
      • 18. MWV U 78 "Venetian Gondola Song"
      • 19. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 20. Op. 30 No. 1: Andante espressivo in E Flat
      • 21. MWV U 103
      • 22. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 23. Op. 30 No. 2: Allegro di molto in B Flat Minor
      • 24. MWV U 77

      Disc 2

      • 1. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 2. Op. 30 No. 3: Adagio non troppo in E
      • 3. MWV U 104 "Consolation"
      • 4. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 5. Op. 30 No. 4: Agitato e con fuoco in B Minor
      • 6. MWV U 98
      • 7. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 8. Op. 30 No. 5: Andante grazioso in D
      • 9. MWV U 97
      • 10. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 11. Op. 30 No. 6: Allegretto in F Sharp Minor
      • 12. MWV U 110 "Venetian Gondola Song"
      • 13. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 14. Op. 38 No. 1: Con moto in E Flat
      • 15. MWV U 121
      • 16. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 17. Op. 38 No. 2: Allegro non troppo in C Minor
      • 18. MWV U 115 "Lost Happiness"
      • 19. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 20. Op. 38 No. 3: Presto in E
      • 21. MWV U 107 "La harpe du poète"
      • 22. Lieder ohne Worte
      • 23. Op. 38 No. 4: Andante in A
      • 24. MWV U 120
      • . Lieder ohne Worte