Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets Vol 3

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets Vol 3
Sophie Daneman (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Stephan Loges (baritone) Eugene Asti (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 November 2003

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Eugene Asti and his dedicated team of singers present us with an engaging recital of twenty-six songs and duets from the Mendelssohn stable. This collection includes settings of poetry by Goethe, Byron, Heine, Eichendorff and others; twenty songs are by Felix Mendelssohn-whose facility to charm is perfectly exploited in such a medium-with Fanny Mendelssohn demonstrating in the remaining six an extraordinary and striking talent, quite the match of her younger sibling.

The Mendelssohn songs without words may indeed outshine the Lieder in our contemporary consciousness, but here we find domestic bliss in pure musical form.

'There is much to recommend in this collection. First of all, the songs themselves, some deeper than others, are sweet and forthright, and shown to their best advantage by the equally sweet and forthright playing of Eugene Asti. Displaying a remarkable ease at the keyboard and a deep sense of these pieces, he seems to be the inspiring and unifying force behind the entire enterprise' (Fanfare, USA)

Tracks:

Gruß Op 19a/5
Sonntagslied Op 34/5
Entsagung Op 9/11
Die Sterne schau'n in stiller Nacht Op 99/2
Frühlingslied Op 34/3
Schilflied Op 71/4
Altdeutsches Lied Op 57/1
Keine von der Erde Schönen
Schlafloser Augen Leuchte
Suleika Op 57/3
Der Mond Op 86/5
Wie kann ich froh und lustig sein? Abendlied Op 8/9
Morgenlied Op 86/2
Im Frühling Op 9/4 Romanze Op 8/10
Tröstung Op 71/1
Pilgerspruch Op 8/5 Minnelied im Mai Op 8/1
Nachtlied Op 71/6;

FANNY MENDELSSOHN:
Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe
Sehnsucht Op 9/7
Suleika und Hatem Op 9/12
Das Heimweh Op 8/2
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
Aus meinen Tränen spriessen