In An Early Evening Stroll’, we dedicate the first Tuesday of each month to the youth works of Felix Mendelssohn.
The search through the massive amount of works is still ongoing. Today, we first listen to music from one of his great inspirations, a surprising symphony for strings by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. And then we hear how eleven-year-old Felix himself tackled this genre. A year later, he delved into large-scale religious music for the first time. In his ‘Gloria’, we can hear the influence of Bach and Handel. He also wrote plenty of piano music and, of course, songs.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: String Symphony in G major, H. 657, Wq. 182/1
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 3 in E minor
L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Michi Gaigg
Felix Mendelssohn: Gloria in D major
Conducted by Frieder Bernius
Felix Mendelssohn: 1st movement from Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 105
Howard Shelley, piano
Felix Mendelssohn: Ave Maria (1820)
Anna Grevelius, mezzo-soprano
Eugene Asti, piano
