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Mendelssohn - Lieder ohne Worte, Books 5 - 8

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Catalogue numberBIS-1983 SACD
Release date2016-04-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time73:33

Ronald Brautigam, piano During the early 19th century a number of composers began to write in new genres inspired by literature: Chopin's Ballades, Schumann's Novelletten and, later, Liszt's symphonic poems are all examples of this Romantic urge to create works that transcend the divide between the arts. In 1828 Felix Mendelssohn invented a genre of his own, when he presented his sister Fanny with a 'song without words' for her birthday. He went on to compose a large number of such Lieder ohne Worte and published no less than six sets of six pieces each. These became immensely popular with amateur and professional pianists, as well as with their respective audiences. Mendelssohn's death in 1847 did not affect the huge demand for the pieces, and the publisher Simrock soon issued another two sets, compiled from pieces that the composer had set aside for later publication.
Mendelssohn himself supplied a few of the songs with more or less descriptive subtitles, but his aim was not to tell an existing story in music instead of words, but rather to communicate something that could only be conveyed through music. To Mendelssohn, music was more exact than language – in his own words: 'the music I love expresses ideas that are not too vague to be captured in words, but on the contrary too precise.’ When Ronald Brautigam's recording of Books 1-4 was released in 2012, the reviewer in International Record Review wrote: ‘One could scarcely hope for performances more vivid or poetic than these.’ This second volume includes the last four published sets of Lieder ohne Worte, as well as a number of other piano miniatures. Brautigam performs them on the same instrument as on the previous disc, a copy by Paul McNulty after a piano from 1830 by Ignaz Pleyel, preserved at Musée de la musique in Paris.
 
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  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Sechs Lieder ohne Worte, Op.62 12:27
01 I. G major, Andante espressivo 02:02 $ 0.49 USD
02 II. B flat major, Allegro con fuoco 01:45 $ 0.42 USD
03 III. E minor, Andante maestoso (‘Trauermarsch’) 02:50 $ 0.68 USD
04 IV. G major, Allegro con anima 01:32 $ 0.37 USD
05 V. A minor, Andante con moto, ‘Venetianisches
Gondellied’
02:07 $ 0.51 USD
06 VI. A major, Allegretto grazioso(‘Frühlingslied’) 02:11 $ 0.52 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Sechs Lieder ohne Worte, Op.67 12:59
07 I. E flat major, Andante 02:34 $ 0.62 USD
08 II. F sharp minor, Allegro leggiero 01:44 $ 0.42 USD
09 III. B flat major, Andante tranquillo 02:30 $ 0.60 USD
10 IV. C major, Presto (‘Spinnerlied’) 01:46 $ 0.42 USD
11 V. B minor, Moderato 02:13 $ 0.53 USD
12 VI. E major, Allegretto non troppo 02:12 $ 0.53 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Sechs Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 85 12:07
13 I. F major, Andante espressivo 02:35 $ 0.62 USD
14 II. A minor, Allegro agitato 00:59 $ 0.24 USD
15 III. E flat major, Presto 02:12 $ 0.53 USD
16 IV. D major, Andante sostenuto 02:32 $ 0.61 USD
17 V. A major, Allegretto 01:54 $ 0.46 USD
18 VI. B flat major, Allegretto con moto 01:55 $ 0.46 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Sechs Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 102 11:35
19 I. E minor, Andante un poco agitato 02:54 $ 0.70 USD
20 II. D major, Adagio 02:18 $ 0.55 USD
21 III. C major, Presto, ‘Kinderstück’ 01:19 $ 0.32 USD
22 IV. G minor, Andante, un poco agitato 02:05 $ 0.50 USD
23 V. A major, Allegro vivace, ‘Kinderstück’ 01:08 $ 0.27 USD
24 VI. C major, Andante 01:51 $ 0.44 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Individual ‘Lieder ohne Worte’ 10:46
25 A major, Allegretto non troppo, ‘Gondellied’, MWV U 136 01:53 $ 0.45 USD
26 F major, ‘Ein Lied ohne Worte’, MWV U 150 02:01 $ 0.48 USD
27 D major, Allegro assai, ‘Lied’, MWV U 178 02:28 $ 0.59 USD
28 D minor, Allegro vivace, ‘Reiter-Lied’, MWV U 187 01:38 $ 0.39 USD
29 E flat major, Allegro molto, ‘Lied’, MWV U 82 02:46 $ 0.66 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Sechs Kinderstücke, Op. 72 08:38
30 I. G major, Allegro non troppo 01:08 $ 0.27 USD
31 II. E flat major, Andante sostenuto 01:50 $ 0.44 USD
32 III. G major, Allegretto 00:57 $ 0.23 USD
33 IV. D major, Andante con moto 01:25 $ 0.34 USD
34 V. G minor, Allegro assai 01:49 $ 0.44 USD
35 IV. F major, Vivace 01:29 $ 0.36 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix
  Aus dem Notenalbum für Eduard Benecke: 04:41
36 E flat major, Andante, MWV U 165 01:51 $ 0.44 USD
37 F major, Sostenuto, MWV U 167 02:50 $ 0.68 USD
 
  Album total 73:33
PianoBrautigam, Ronald
ComposerMendelssohn (-Bartholdy), Felix

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