Guess Who?

 
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / FANNY HENSEL
Guess Who?
Olga Pashchenko

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 February 2025

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Pianist Olga Pashchenko creates musical narratives with selections from Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. As children, the two immensely prodigious siblings enjoyed using text to inspire their piano pieces, although which of them was the actual inventor of the genre remains a mystery. It is possible that they either co-created this genre, or even that Fanny could have been the creator of the genre traditionally ascribed exclusively to Felix. This music, although wordless, is bursting with poetry and well-suited to the Conrad Graf piano from 1836 that Pashchenko chose for this recording. The Graf piano, a brand favoured by Felix, has a recitative-like quality that Pashchenko uses to perfectly articulate the poetry inherent in these Lieder ohne Worte or as Fanny called them, Lieder für das Pianoforte.

Tracks:

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
LIEDER OHNE WORTE, OP.19B

LIEDER OHNE WORTE, OP.30

FANNY HENSEL, NÉE MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
VIER LIEDER FÜR DAS PIANOFORTE, OP.2

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.38: 2. Allegro non troppo, MWV U 115
Gondellied, MWV U 136
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.38: 5. Agitato, MWV U 137
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.62: 3. Andante maestoso, MWV U 177
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.62: 5. Venetianisches Gondellied.
Andante con moto, MWV U 151
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.62: 6. Allegretto grazioso, MWV U 161

FANNY HENSEL, NÉE MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
VIER LIEDER FÜR DAS PIANOFORTE, OP.6

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
LIEDER OHNE WORTE, OP.67

FANNY HENSEL, NÉE MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
VIER LIEDER FÜR DAS PIANOFORTE, OP.8

Lieder ohne Worte, Op.102: 1. Andante un poco agitato, MWV U 162
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.102: 3. Kinderstück. Presto, MWV U 195
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.19b: 6. Venetianisches Gondellied.
Andante sostenuto, MWV U 78
Lieder ohne Worte, Op.53: 6. Molto Allegro vivace, MWV U 154

FANNY HENSEL, NÉE MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
Notturno in G minor, H.337