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Track(s) taken from CDA68125

Lied in A major, 1837

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April 1837; Allegretto; published in 1927

Howard Shelley (piano)
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Recording details: December 2014
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Annabel Connellan
Engineered by Ben Connellan
Release date: January 2016
Total duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds

Cover artwork: Swans in the Reeds (c1820). Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia / Bridgeman Images
 

Reviews

‘A fascinating recital, warmly recorded and with absorbing notes from Mendelssohn scholar R Larry Todd’ (Gramophone)

‘Shelley's technique is superb, and anything marked 'Presto' or thereabouts is delivered with tremendous élan’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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‘Recommended for Mendelssohn fans, as indeed is Shelley's entire series’ (AllMusic, USA)» More

The buoyant Allegretto in A major, described by Mendelssohn’s wife, Cécile, as a kleines Lied (‘little song’), dates from April 1837, during their honeymoon in the Black Forest near Freiburg. After the couple gathered violets during one of their walks along the Dreisam River, the composer notated the piece in their honeymoon diary, and then made a second fair copy the same day. Unpublished until 1927, it was intended as a private memoir of a blissful time in Mendelssohn’s life.

from notes by R Larry Todd © 2016
author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn and, with Marc Moskovitz, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World

L’Allegretto enjoué en la majeur, décrit par la femme de Mendelssohn, Cécile, comme un kleines Lied (une «petite mélodie»), date d’avril 1837, au cours de leur voyage de noces en Forêt noire près de Fribourg. Après que le couple eut cueilli des violettes pendant l’une de leurs marches le long de la rivière Dreisam, le compositeur nota cette pièce dans leur journal de lune de miel; il la recopia au propre le jour même. Inédite jusqu’en 1927, c’était le souvenir personnel d’un moment délicieux dans la vie de Mendelssohn.

extrait des notes rédigées par R Larry Todd © 2016
auteur de Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn et, avec Marc Moskovitz, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World
Français: Marie-Stella Pâris

Das lebhafte Allegretto in A-Dur, welches Mendelssohns Ehefrau Cécile als „kleines Lied“ bezeichnete, entstand im April 1837, als sie und Felix im Schwarzwald in der Nähe von Freiburg auf Hochzeitsreise waren. Nachdem das frischgebackene Ehepaar auf einem Spaziergang entlang der Dreisam einen Veilchenstrauß gepflückt hatte, notierte der Komponist das Stück im gemeinsamen Reisetagebuch und fertigte noch am selben Tag eine zweite Reinschrift an. Es blieb bis 1927 unveröffentlicht und war als persönliche Erinnerung an eine glückliche Zeit in Mendelssohns Leben gedacht.

aus dem Begleittext von R Larry Todd © 2016
Autor von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohnsowie, zusammen mit Marc Moskovitz, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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