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Songs without Words, Op. 109
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10 in B Minor, MWV N 10
Chineke! Orchestra & Matthew Lynch
2. Fugue, MWV U106
Benjamin Grosvenor
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: No. 5 Moderato (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano) [Live from Meistersaal, Berlin]
Andreas Ottensamer & Julien Quentin
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 62: No. 6 Allegretto grazioso "Spring Song" (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano) [Live from Meistersaal, Berlin]
Andreas Ottensamer & Julien Quentin
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19: No. 6 Andante sostenuto "Venetianisches Gondellied" (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Strings)
Andreas Ottensamer, Schumann Quartett & Gunars Upatnieks
Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses in D Minor, Op. 54
Yoav Levanon
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67: No. 4 in C Major. Presto "Spinning Song" (Live on Seine, Paris 2019)
Lang Lang
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 109
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 2 Allegro agitato (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano) [Live from Meistersaal, Berlin]
Andreas Ottensamer & Julien Quentin
About Felix Mendelssohn
Artist Biography
A creative prodigy without equal, by his midteens Felix Mendelssohn was composing startlingly original masterworks that combine Classical elegance and poise with Romantic fantasy. Born in Hamburg in 1809 and raised by an enlightened family that nurtured his polymathic genius, he was viewed by his admiring public as the natural heir of Mozart. Accordingly, his breakthrough teenage masterpieces—a String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 (1825) and Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Op. 21 (1826)—possess a lightness of touch, melodic charm, excited forward momentum and formal clarity that characterise the remainder of his output. His genius for orchestral colour and precision is at its most potent in the windswept seascapes of the Hebrides Overture Op. 26 (1830) and gentle reminiscences of his “Scottish” Symphony in A minor Op. 46 (1842), while his scintillating virtuoso flair is typified by the Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 (1844). Mendelssohn also somehow found time to run the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, kickstart the rediscovery of Johann Sebastian Bach’s genius with an 1829 Berlin performance of the St. Matthew Passion and thoroughly rejuvenate British musical culture. Exhausted by his whirlwind lifestyle and deeply affected by the death of his gifted composer sister Fanny (1805–1847), Mendelssohn passed away in 1847, aged just 38.
Hometown
Hamburg, Germany
Genre
Classical
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