Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Howard Shelley
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68098
Release: 2015
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Etude in F minor
02. Scherzo in B minor
03. Scherzo a capriccio in F sharp minor
Caprices Nos 1-3, Op. 33
04. I. Adagio quasi Fantasia – Presto agitato
05. II. Allegro grazioso
06. III. Adagio – Presto con fuoco
Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 105
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Presto
Songs without Words, Book 4, Op. 53
10. No 1 in A flat major. Andante con moto
11. No 2 in E flat major. Allegro non troppo
12. No 3 in G minor. Presto agitato
13. No 4 in F major. Adagio
14. No 5 in A minor ‘Volkslied’. Allegro con fuoco
15. No 6 in A major. Molto allegro vivace
16. Lied in F sharp minor
Under-valued for a century and a half, the perfected joys of Mendelssohn’s music for solo piano are further unearthed in this third volume of our complete series from Howard Shelley where fascinating early works sit happily alongside Book 4 of the ‘Songs without words’ and the wonderful Caprices of opus 33.