Youth works of Mendelssohn. It seems like there is a continuous excavation going on because more and more works that are worth listening to are being discovered.
No genre was safe from the eager young Felix. Today we’ll hear mainly pieces he wrote around the age of eleven. Piano music, a symphony for strings, religious works for the choir in which he sang, his very first organ piece, and a song.
- Felix Mendelssohn: Adagio and Finale from the Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 105
Howard Shelley, piano - Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 4 in C minor
Gewandhausorchester conducted by Kurt Masur - Felix Mendelssohn: Psalm motets
The heavens declare the glory of God,
One day tells another,
He has made a tent for the sun - The law of the Lord is without change
Chamber Choir of Europe
Nicol Matt
- Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in D major for two pianos (1820)
Duo Egri and Pertis - Felix Mendelssohn: Prelude in D minor (1820)
Rudolf Innig, organ - Felix Mendelssohn: ‘Von allen deinen zarten Gaben’ (1822)
Finnur Bjarnason, tenor, Eugene Asti, piano
