Mendelssohn Hensel: Charakterstucke - Works for Solo Piano / Speidel

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Label
Ars Produktion
Release Date
February 16, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Fanny Hensel
    • PERFORMER
      Sontraud Speidel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 16, 2024
    • UPC
      4260052386484
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARS38648
    • LABEL
      Ars Produktion
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sonatensatz in E Major

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    2. No. 2. Allegretto

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    3. No. 3. Allegro molto quasi Presto

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    4. No. 4. Lento appassionato

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    5. No. 5. Allegro molto vivace

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    6. No. 6. Andante soave

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    7. 4 Lieder, Op. 8: No. 4. Wanderlied: Presto

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    8. No. 1. January

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    9. No. 7. July

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    10. No. 12. December

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    11. Postlude

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    12. No. 1. Andante espressivo

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    13. No. 2. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    14. No. 3. O Traum der Jugend, o goldner Stern: Andante cantabile

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel

    15. No. 4. Il Saltarello Romano: Allegro molto

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Sontraud Speidel


When Fanny Hensel, nee Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the wife of the Prussian court painter Wilhelm Hensel, died unexpectedly on 14 May 1847 at the age of 41 as a result of a stroke, the music writer and poet Ludwig Rellstab coined the beautiful phrase that she "also shared the sisterhood of talent with her famous brother".

This assertion has only recently been recognised in its full significance. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's eldest sister, granddaughter of the philosopher and Lessing's friend Moses Mendelssohn, niece of the scandal-ridden Dorothea Schlegel, was not only a musical prodigy, an outstanding pianist and conductor, her brother's closest confidante and advisor and a brilliant writer of letters, but also "the most important female composer of the 19th century" (Franz Krautwurst). Jahrhunderts" (Franz Krautwurst in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Supplement, article Fanny Hensel, 1979).

The present CD offers mostly first recordings of some piano compositions, primarily works that were published by the composer herself, and thus helps to gain a more differentiated picture of the creative abilities of this unusual woman.