Peter Donohoe - Mendelssohn: Songs without words, Vol. 2 '2023

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. 17 Variations sérieuses in D Minor, Op. 54, MWV U 156
02. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 38: No. 3 in E Major, MWV U 107
03. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 38: No. 4 in A Major, MWV U 120
04. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 19b: No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor / Major, MWV U 90
05. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 30: No. 5 in D Major, MWV U 97
06. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 53: No. 6 in A Major, MWV U 154
07. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 30: No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U 110 "Venetian Gondola
Song"
08. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 102: No. 5 in A Major, MWV U 194 "Piece for Children"
09. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 4 in D Major, MWV U 190
10. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 102: No. 4 in G Minor, MWV U 152
11. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 6 in B-Flat Major, MWV U 155
12. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 53: No. 1 in A-Flat Major, MWV U 143
13. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 30: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, MWV U 77
14. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 30: No. 1 in E-Flat Major, MWV U 103
15. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 53: No. 3 in G Minor, MWV U 144 "Gondola Song"
16. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 3 in E-Flat Major, MWV U 111
17. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 19b: No. 6 in G Minor, MWV U 78 "Venetian Gondola Song"
18. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 38: No. 1 in E-Flat Major, MWV U 121
19. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 62: No. 2 in B-Flat Major, MWV U 181
20. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 1 in F Major, MWV U 150
21. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 102: No. 3 in C Major, MWV U 195 "Piece for Children"
22. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 2 in A Minor, MWV U 101
23. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85: No. 5 in A Major, MWV U 191
24. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 38: No. 5 in A Minor, MWV U 137
25. Lied ohne Worte, Op. 67: No. 6 in E Major, MWV U 188
26. Phantasie in B-Flat Major, Op. 15, MWV U 74 on an Irish Song "The Last Rose
of Summer"
27. Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in B-Flat Major, Op. 61, MWV M 13

Lieder ohne Worte – Songs without Words – seems to be a
description invented by Mendelssohn himself for these short, lyrical and
descriptive piano pieces which he composed so prolifically. Indeed, it is
arguable that these works define his pianistic output in the same way that the
Mazurka defines Chopin’s. Publishing them in sets of six, Mendelssohn
composed Lieder ohne Worte throughout his career – they proved a type of
composition to which he had a lifetime attraction.

For the first volume, rather than approaching them chronologically or as
complete sets, Peter Donohoe selected pieces to build a satisfying programme.
Here he does the same with all the pieces that remain. In addition, the album
features three free-standing significant works. The 17 Variations sérieuses,
from 1841, is one of Mendelssohn’s largest solo piano works, and was
published in an album to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven. The Phantasie
on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ is a much earlier work, based on the
Irish folk melody that – with added words by the Irish poet Thomas Moore
– took Europe by storm in the early 1800s. The album concludes with
Rachmaninoff’s piano transcription of the Scherzo from A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.

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