Mendelssohn – Lieder ohne Worte, Books 5 – 8 - BIS: BIS1983 - SACD or download

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The variety of tangy colours he conjures from the instrument really is the aural equivalent of removing a century of dirt from an oil painting…if, like me, you have an irrational aversion to... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Release Date: 27th May 2016
Catalogue No: BIS1983
Label: BIS
Length: 73 minutes

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 5 (6), Op. 62

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Ronald Brautigam
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Recording Venue: Österåker Church, Sweden

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No. 2. Allegro con fuoco, MWV U181

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No. 3. Andante maestoso, MWV U177, "Trauermarsch"

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No. 4. Allegro con anima, MWV U175

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No. 5. Andante con moto, MWV U151, "Venezianisches Gondellied"

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No. 6. Allegretto grazioso, MWV U161, "Fruhlingslied"

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 6 (6), Op. 67

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Ronald Brautigam
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No. 1. Andante, MWV U180

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No. 2. Allegro leggiero, MWV U145

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No. 3. Andante tranquillo, MWV U102

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No. 4. Presto, MWV U182, "Spinnerlied"

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No. 5. Moderato, MWV U184

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No. 6. Allegretto non troppo, MWV U188

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 7 (6), Op. 85

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Ronald Brautigam
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Recording Venue: Österåker Church, Sweden

No. 1. Andante espressivo, MWV U189

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No. 2. Allegro agitato, MWV U101

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No. 3. Presto, MWV U111

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No. 4. Andante sostenuto, MWV U190

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No. 5. Allegretto, MWV U191

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No. 6. Allegretto con moto, MWV U155

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 8 (6), Op. 102

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Ronald Brautigam
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No. 1. Andante un poco agitato, MWV U162

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No. 2. Adagio, MWV U192

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No. 3. Presto, MWV U195, "Kinderstuck"

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No. 4. Andante, un poco agitato, MWV U152

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No. 5. Allegro vivace, MWV U194, "Kinderstuck"

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No. 6. Andante, MWV U172

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Mendelssohn: Gondellied (Barcarolle) in A

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Ronald Brautigam
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Recording Venue: Österåker Church, Sweden

Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words) in F Major, MWV U150

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Ronald Brautigam
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Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words) in D Major, MWV U178

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Ronald Brautigam
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Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words) in D Minor, MWV U187, "Reiterlied" (Horseman's Song)

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Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words) in D Minor, MWV U187, "Reiterlied"

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Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte (Song without Words) in E-Flat Major, MWV U82 (completed by R.L. Todd)

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Ronald Brautigam
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Recording Venue: Österåker Church, Sweden

Mendelssohn: Kinderstücke (6), Op. 72 'Christmas Pieces'

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Ronald Brautigam
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No. 1 in G Major: Allegro non troppo, MWV U171

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No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Andante sostenuto, MWV U170

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No. 3 in G Major: Allegretto, MWV U164

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No. 4 in D Major: Andante con moto, MWV U169

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No. 5 in G Minor: Allegro assai, MWV U166

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No. 6 in F Major: Vivace, MWV U168

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Mendelssohn: Andante in E-Flat Major, MWV U165

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Ronald Brautigam
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Mendelssohn: Sostenuto in F major, MWV U167

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Ronald Brautigam
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During the early 19th century a number of composers began to write in new genres inspired by literature: Chopin's Ballades, Schumann's Novelletten and, later, Liszt's Symphonic Poems are all examples of this Romantic urge to create works that transcend the divide between the arts. In 1828 Felix Mendelssohn invented a genre of his own when he presented his sister Fanny with a 'song without words' for her birthday. He went on to compose a large number of such Lieder ohne Worte and published no less than six sets of six pieces each. Following Mendelssohn's death in 1847 the publisher Simrock issued another two sets, compiled from pieces that the composer had set aside for later publication. Mendelssohn himself supplied a few of the songs with more or less descriptive subtitles, but his aim was not to tell an existing story in music instead of words, but rather to communicate something that could only be conveyed through music. To Mendelssohn, music was more exact than language – in his own words: 'the music I love expresses ideas that are not too vague to be captured in words, but on the contrary too precise.’ When Ronald Brautigam's recording of Books 1-4 was released in 2012, the reviewer in International Record Review wrote: ‘One could scarcely hope for performances more vivid or poetic than these.’ This second volume includes the last four published sets of Lieder ohne Worte, as well as a number of other piano miniatures. Brautigam performs them on the same instrument as on the previous disc, a copy by Paul McNulty after a piano from 1830 by Ignaz Pleyel, preserved at Musée de la musique in Paris.

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July 2016

The variety of tangy colours he conjures from the instrument really is the aural equivalent of removing a century of dirt from an oil painting…if, like me, you have an irrational aversion to the fortepiano, Brautigam might well change your mind. It is fascinating to hear such familiar music much as Mendelssohn himself might have heard it

Mendelssohn – Lieder ohne Worte, Books 5 – 8

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