Mendelssohn - Early Concertos for Violin & Piano | Orfeo C761092

Mendelssohn - Early Concertos for Violin & Piano

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Label: Orfeo

Cat No: C761092

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents

Artists

Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
Dinorah Varsi (piano)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Michael Hofstetter

Works

Mendelssohn, Felix

Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor
Concerto for violin and strings in D minor (second version)
Piano Concerto in A minor

Artists

Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
Dinorah Varsi (piano)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Michael Hofstetter

About

Mendelssohn wrote his first concertos between 1821 and 1823, while still only a boy and fresh from his meeting with Goethe in Weimar. There was a double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra, plus one solo concerto each for the two instruments (they are all without opus number and not to be confused with the later piano concertos or the Violin Concerto Op.64). Mendelssohn's teacher, Zelter, set up the meeting with Goethe, but his pupil soon surpassed him.

Dinorah Varsi plays his rapid runs, chains of trills and parallel octaves with all the necessary virtuosity. Alexander Sitkovetsky, on the other hand, moves effortlessly between the 'galant' and the French styles, and in the double concerto he and Dinorah Varsi together offer a virtuoso display, pulling out all the stops.

Sitkovetsky was discovered at just 8 years of age by Yehudi Menuhin and it was Menuhin who rediscovered Mendelssohn's early violin concerto and brought it to the public's attention.

A must for everyone interested in Mendelssohn's early works.

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