Olga Pashchenko: Guess Who?

Pianist Olga Pashchenko creates musical narratives with selections from Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words. As children, the two immensely prodigious siblings enjoyed using text to inspire their piano pieces, although which of them was the actual inventor of the genre remains a mystery. It is possible that they either co-created this genre, or even that Fanny could have been the creator of the genre traditionally ascribed exclusively to Felix. This music, although wordless, is bursting with poetry and well-suited to the Conrad Graf piano from 1836 that Pashchenko chose for this recording. The Graf piano, a brand favoured by Felix, has a recitative-like quality that Pashchenko uses to perfectly articulate the poetry inherent in these Lieder ohne Worte or as Fanny called them, Lieder für das Pianoforte.

1: No. 3. Molto Allegro E Vivace
2: No. 5. Poco Agitato
3: No. 1. Andante Espressivo
4: No. 2. Allegro Di Molto
5: No. 3. Adagio Non Troppo
6: No. 4. Agitato E Con Fuoco
7: Venetianisches Gondellied. Allegretto Tranquillo
8: No. 1. Andante
9: Villa Mills. Allegretto Grazioso
10: No. 2 in C Minor
11: Gondellied
12: No. 5 in a Minor
13: No. 3. Andante Maestoso
14: Venetianisches Gondellied. Andante
15: No. 6. Allegretto Grazioso
16: No. 2. Allegro Vivace
17: O Traum Der Jugend, O Goldner Stern
18: Il Saltarello Romano (Tarantella)
19: No. 2. Allegro Leggiero
20: No. 5. Moderato
21: No. 4. Presto
22: No. 1. Allegro Moderato
23: No. 2. Andante Con Espressione
24: Lenau
25: Wanderlied
26: No. 1. Andante Un Poco Agitato
27: Kinderstück. Presto
28: Venetianisches Gondellied. Andante Sostenuto
29: No. 6 in a Major
30: Notturno in G Minor

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn

Number of Discs: 1

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