With accompanying compact disc, compled from Naxos 8.570794, Naxos 8.553161, Naxos 8.550681, Naxos 8.550861, and Naxos 8. 554055. Performers on accompanying CD: Track 1: New Zealand Symphony, James Judd (cond.); Tracks 2-4: Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward (cond.); Tracks 5-7: Benjamin Frith (piano), Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky (cond.); Tracks 8-11: Aurora String Quartet; Tracks 12-14: Péter Nagy, (piano).
Contents:
Felix Mendelssohn: chronological list of works -- Introduction: Getting to know Mendelssohn's music -- The baroque Mendelssohn. String symphonies, nos. 1-6 ; Selected keyboard works (organ sonatas, six preludes and fugues, three preludes and fugues ; Oratorios (St. Paul and Elijah) -- The classical Mendelssohn. String symphonies, nos. 7-9 ; Chamber music (octet, string quartets, string quintets, chamber works with piano) ; Selected keyboard works (Variations sérieuses, piano sonatas, and more) -- The romantic Mendelssohn. String symphonies, nos. 10-13 ; Symphonies for full orchestra (and one sonata) ; Selected vocal works: songs, choral music, Lobgesang, Die erste Walpurgisnacht -- The progressive Mendelssohn. Overtures and incidental music ; Concertos and solos with orchestra ; Songs without words -- Conclusion: Listening to Mendelssohn -- Track list. Works on accompanying CD: No 39 in A major, op. 62/6, Spring song. String symphony no. 3 in E minor -- Piano concerto no. 1 in G minor, op. 25 -- String quartet no. 6 in F minor, op. 80 -- Songs without words. No 27 in E minor, op. 62/3, Funeral march ; No. 29 in A minor, op. 62/5, Gondolier's song ; No 39 in A major, op. 62/6, Spring song.
Summary:
"The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe's most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in his posthumous reputation, and as a result Mendelssohn's music was obscured by a host of extra-musical factors: changes in taste, the rise of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and contempt for Victorian culture. This "owner's manual" offers a guide to Mendelssohn's musical output, major and minor, providing points of entry into a large body of work, much of which remains far too little known. There's much more to Mendelssohn than the "Italian" Symphony and the "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, and a whole creative world of vivid, expressive, and fantastical music is ready for exploration."-- Amazon.com.
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