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Mathieu / Shostakovich / Mendelssohn - Concertino & Concertos | Analekta AN29283

Mathieu / Shostakovich / Mendelssohn - Concertino & Concertos

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Label: Analekta

Cat No: AN29283

Barcode: 0774204928322

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 7th December 2009

Contents

Artists

Alain Lefevre (piano)
David Lefevre (violin)
Paul Archibald (trumpet)
London Mozart Players

Conductor

Matthias Bamert

Works

Mathieu, Andre

Piano Concertino no.2, op.13

Mendelssohn, Felix

Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Piano Concerto no.1 in C minor, op.35

Artists

Alain Lefevre (piano)
David Lefevre (violin)
Paul Archibald (trumpet)
London Mozart Players

Conductor

Matthias Bamert

About

Alain Lefèvre gave the European premiere of Mathieu’s Fourth Piano Concerto. He has been a guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic and the London Mozart Players.

David Lefèvre is principal Concertmaster with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.

While Schumann freely referred to Felix Mendelssohn as the "Mozart of the 19th century," Goethe, who saw both young musicians perform, felt that young Felix shone even more brilliantly than his predecessor. "I am Saul and you are my David; when I am sad and dismayed, come to me and comfort me with your music", he declared after hearing the 13-year-old Mendelssohn improvise on the theme of a Bach fugue.

A century later, a similar label was placed on André Mathieu. "I cannot say whether little André Mathieu will become a greater musician than Mozart, but I can say that at his age, Mozart had not created anything comparable to what this miraculous boy performed for us with stunning brio", wrote Émile Vuillermoz in 1939.

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