Composer: Felix Mendelssohn, Friedrich Schneider
Performer: Hiro Kurosaki
Orchestra: Cappella Coloniensis
Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 999932-2
Release: 2019
Size: 370 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Schneider: Symphony No. 17
01. I. Allegro vivace
02. II. Andante cantabile
03. III. Menuetto. Allegro con fuoco
04. IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. post.
05. I. Allegro molto
06. II. Andante
07. III. Allegro
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
08. I. Allegro di molto
09. II. Andante
10. III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
11. IV. Allegro con fuoco
The comparison of works written by two fundamentally different composers within a very narrow time frame of perhaps two to three years frequently proves to be a very interesting listening exercise. This comparison generates even greater suspense when one of the two currently ranks as a world-renowned and recognized genius while the oeuvre of the other continues to lie largely unnoticed in the archives. In what in addition is still a rare interpretative option on historical instruments, here with the Cappella Coloniensis under Sigiswald Kuijken, we are now once again offering you the opportunity to engage in such a musical comparison between Felix Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schneider, who is practically forgotten today. Here his Symphony No. 17 of 1822 is heard in confrontation with the Violin Concerto in D minor composed by Mendelssohn during the same year and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor composed by him two years later. Hiro Kurosaki is our dazzling soloist.