Vinyl Isata Kanneh-Mason - Mendelssohn (2LP)

Vinyl record Isata Kanneh-Mason - Mendelssohn (2LP)

Genre: Classical

DESCRIPTION
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Groundbreaking Album Celebrates the Mendelssohn Siblings' Music on 2LP!
Includes Fanny Mendelssohn's Long-Lost Easter Sonata!

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"It was important to me when making a Mendelssohn album to include both Fanny and Felix. It's only in the last few decades that we've started to hear what Fanny was composing — it's amazing music, and I'm glad to be playing it." – Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn explores three facets of one of the most famous names in classical music: the glittering Piano Concerto No.1 by Felix with the London Mozart Players; the long-lost Easter Sonata by his sister Fanny, as well as transcriptions by other composers of Mendelssohn's most famous music.

In 2024, Isata Kanneh-Mason featured in the critically acclaimed film The Other Mendelssohn, exploring the life of the exceptionally talented but overlooked Fanny Mendelssohn, later Fanny Hensel. In the film, they uncover the fact that the Easter Sonata, a piece lost for 150 years, was in fact written by Fanny, not Felix. Isata was the first artist to perform the work attributed to the correct composer.

The album features this world premiere recording of the new urtext edition of Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata. As well as beautiful solo piano transcriptions by Liszt (On Wings of Song) and Rachmaninov (A Midsummer Night's Dream), and two of Felix's Songs Without Words and Fanny's Nocturne, also for solo piano.

Features
Double LP
Musicians
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
London Mozart Players

Tracklist
Side A:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: I. Molto allegro con fuoco
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: II. Andante

Side B:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: III. Presto – Molto allegro e vivace
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Scherzo (Transcr. Rachmaninoff for Piano)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Nocturne (Transcr. Moszkowski for Piano)
Mendelssohns Lieder, S. 547: I. Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (After Op. 34/2)

Side C:
Lieder ohne Worte VI, Op. 67: II. Allegro leggiero, MWV U145 "Lost Illusions"
Lieder ohne Worte VI, Op. 67: VI. Allegretto non troppo, MWV U188 "Cradle Song"
Notturno in G Minor, H-U 337
I. Allegro assai moderato
II. Largo e molto espresso – Poco più mosso

Side D:
III. Scherzo. Allegretto
IV. Allegro con strepito