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Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio | Chandos CHAN20256

Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN20256

Barcode: 0095115225622

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 29th July 2022

Gramophone Editor's Choice

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About

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, born four years before her brother, Felix Mendelssohn, was an accomplished pianist and a prolific composer. When she died of a stroke, aged just forty-two, she left around 460 pieces of music, some 250 of which are songs. The difficulties of making a career in her own era (her supportive father would not allow her to publish or work as a ‘professional’ composer) have condemned much of her work to obscurity, a situation that is now rapidly being reversed as the number of concerts and recordings devoted to works by women composers increases.

Here the award-winning Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective champions her Piano Trio and Piano Quartet, alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s underperformed Piano Sextet. Fanny composed her Piano Quartet whilst a student, aged seventeen. In contrast, the Piano Trio was her last chamber work, written in her final year. The Piano Sextet by Felix Mendelssohn was also an early work, written in just a few short weeks in the spring of 1824. For some reason he never published the work (perhaps because of the unusual scoring), hence it became his Op.110 when published, posthumously, in 1868.

Reviews

Another month, another Fanny-and-Felix pairing. Not that I’m complaining when the results are as exhilarating as this. Over the past decade or so Fanny’s Piano Trio, like Clara Schumann’s, has, happily, edged into the regular repertoire. And for my money Fanny’s is the finer, certainly the more daring and impassioned, of the two. ... If neither of the other works on the programme reaches the level of Fanny’s masterpiece, both are enjoyable, and dispatched with similar panache by the Kaleidoscope Collective.  Richard Wigmore
Gramophone October 2022

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