Mendelssohn: Works for Cello & Piano / Poltera, Brautigam

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BIS
Release Date
October 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX
    • PERFORMER
      Poltera, Brautigam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2017
    • UPC
      7318599921877
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2187
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Thema: Andante con moto

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    2. Variation 1

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    3. Variation 2

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    4. Variation 3: Più vivace

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    5. Variation 4: Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    6. Variation 5: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    7. Variation 6: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    8. Variation 7: Presto ed agitato

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    9. Variation 8: Tempo I - Coda

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    10. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    12. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    13. Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words), Op. 109, MWV Q34

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    14. Assai tranquillo in B minor, MWV Q25

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    15. I. Allegro assai vivace

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    16. II. Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    17. III. Adagio

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam

    18. IV. Molto allegro e vivace

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Christian Poltéra, Ronald Brautigam


It is well known that Felix Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny was a highly talented musician, but fewer are familiar with the fact that there were two other musical siblings in the Mendelssohn family: Rebecka, a gifted singer, and Paul, a very competent amateur cellist. It is to Paul, a banker by profession, that we owe the existence of much of Felix’s music for the instrument, which in spite of Beethoven’s endeavours hadn’t yet become firmly established as a duo partner of the piano. Fitting comfortably on a single release, Mendelssohn’s works for cello and piano are here presented by Christian Poltera and Ronald Brautigam, who open with the Variations concertantes in D major, composed in 1829. Brautigam has recently released the composer’s Lieder ohne Worte, performing them on a copy of a piano by Pleyel from 1830, and plays the same instrument on the present disc. Meanwhile, Poltera has chosen to equip his 1711 Stradivarius cello with gut strings, and together the two musicians and their instruments create a sound which is both flexible, transparent and vigorous – ideal for Mendelssohn’s scores. The two substantial sonatas, composed in 1838 and 1843, are separated on the disc by a brief ‘Albumblatt’ and a Romance sans paroles in D major, the only ‘song without words’ that Mendelssohn wrote for two instruments rather than piano solo.