Olga Pashchenko: Hensel & Mendelssohn: Guess Who? - COMPACT DISCS

Olga Pashchenko: Hensel & Mendelssohn: Guess Who? - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Hensel & Mendelssohn: Guess Who?

Artist:

Olga Pashchenko

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3701624511190

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-02-28

Number of Discs:

1

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 fur das Pianoforte.

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