Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn - Works for Cello and Piano

Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn – Works for Cello and Piano

Johannes Moser
Alasdair Beatson

Label

PENTATONE

Location

Concert Hall Valthermond

Credits

Recording Producer / editor

Reviews

BBC Music Magazine

Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson offer fine, full-blooded performances of all this repertoire. Beatson uses an Érard piano from 1837…allowing for maximum clarity and lightness in rapid passagework, as well as an ideal balance between the two instruments. Altogether, a fine achievement, well recorded

Gramophone

Mendelssohn’s keyboard-writing benefits from a piano with a shallower action and greater transparency than the traditional Steinway and both players relish these qualities, with the full-throated opening of the Second Sonata never sounding overbearing, while the second movement has a winsome charm.

The Guardian

Everything is beautifully played, and in truly conversational style – for this is definitely duet music, rather than cello solos accompanied by piano…A disc that might change your mind about the Mendelssohns.

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