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Mendelssohn: Complete Works For Violin And Piano / Nomos Duo

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Composer
MENDELSSOHN
Artist
NOMOS DUO
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 01, 2001
Catalog #
8554725
UPC
636943472521

About

"Felix Mendelssohn's surviving output for violin and piano comprises three sonatas, written between 1820 and 1838, thus spanning the mature phase of the composer's creative life, and a handful of shorter apprentice pieces. They're all elegantly constructed and tuneful works that you'd think might have attracted a wider following on disc and in the recital room. Instead, Mendelssohn's violin triptych is seriously under-represented on CD, and most of the short pieces haven't been recorded at all, so this budget newcomer is long overdue. The performers, violinist Nicholas Milton, concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the Icelandic pianist Margrét Grímsdóttir, give strong, positive readings of these works on this nicely engineered Naxos issue. The student works, composed between 1819 and 1821, are basically composition exercises produced for Mendelssohn's teacher, Carl Friedrich Zelter; but so were the miraculous String Symphonies, and these violin pieces are scarcely of lesser quality, with the two Fugues (in D minor and C minor) reflecting the young Mendelssohn's extraordinary skills as a contrapuntist. The Nomos Duo gives competent performances of these slighter offerings, and delivers tersely argued, forthright readings of the three mature sonatas."

--Michael Jameson

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro vivace 11:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    11:01
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  2. 2 II. Adagio 07:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  3. 3 III. Assai vivace 05:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Assai vivace
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  4. 4 I. Adagio - Allegro moderato 07:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:28
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  5. 5 II. Poco adagio 07:48
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Poco adagio
    Duration
    07:48
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  6. 6 III. Allegro agitato 04:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro agitato
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  7. 7 I. Allegro 04:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  8. 8 II. Andante 05:34
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  9. 9 III. Presto 02:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  10. 10 Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 104. Movement in G Minor 02:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 104. Movement in G Minor
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  11. 11 Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 118. Andante in D Minor 03:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 118. Andante in D Minor
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  12. 12 Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 112. Fugue in D Minor 01:47
    Track
    12
    Title
    Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 112. Fugue in D Minor
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  13. 13 Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 142. Fugue in C Minor 01:22
    Track
    13
    Title
    Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 142. Fugue in C Minor
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo
  14. 14 Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 127. Allegro in C Major 01:30
    Track
    14
    Title
    Übungsbuch bei Zelter, MWV Z1: No. 127. Allegro in C Major
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Nomos Duo