Shihyun Lee - Mendelssohn Fantasies, Caprices, Variations (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker (the additional surname Bartholdy was added to the family name when his parents converted to Christianity). The family moved to Berlin, where Mendelssohn was brought up and able to associate with a cultured circle of family friends. He was associated with the revival of public interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and in the early 1830s travelled abroad for his education, spending time in Italy and also visiting England, Wales and Scotland. He was later conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig (where he also established a conservatory), his stay there interrupted briefly by a return to Berlin. He died in Leipzig in 1847. Prolific and precocious, Mendelssohn had many gifts, musically as composer, conductor and pianist. His style of composition combined something of the economy of means of the Classical period with the Romanticism of a later age.


TRACKLIST

1. Shihyun Lee - Fantasy on “The last Rose of Summer” in E Major, Op. 15
2. Shihyun Lee - Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices, Op. 16: No. 1, Andante con moto
3. Shihyun Lee - Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices, Op. 16: No. 2, Presto
4. Shihyun Lee - Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices, Op. 16: No. 3, Andante
5. Shihyun Lee - Fantasy in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28: I. Con moto agitato
6. Shihyun Lee - Fantasy in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28: II. Allegro con moto
7. Shihyun Lee - Fantasy in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28: III. Presto
8. Shihyun Lee - Trois Caprices, Op. 33: No. 1, Adagio, quasi Fantasia
9. Shihyun Lee - Trois Caprices, Op. 33: No. 2, Allegro grazioso
10. Shihyun Lee - Trois Caprices, Op. 33: No. 3, Adagio-Presto con fuoco
11. Shihyun Lee - Variations sérieuses in D Minor, Op. 54,
12. Shihyun Lee - Andante con Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Op. 82



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