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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Actually, pace the title of this review, I doubt that in Mendelssohn's time the concept of the teenager, as we know it today - that mass market defined group of extended adolescence-even existed. By fourteen or fifteen, the ages at which Mendelssohn composed these two concertos, most young people were working alongside their older peers in the fields, workshops, stores, offices and other establishments of employment to hand.
As for these two concertos, well, Mendelssohn's older, influential peers clearly included Mozart and Beethoven. There is the light, sparkling and fluid melodic invention characteristic of Mozart together with the weightier extended orchestral passages that one associates with Beethoven. As you'd come to expect from Naxos, the recorded sound is excellent and the pianists - Benjamin Frith and Hugh Tinney, under Proinnsias O Duinn with the RTE Sinfonietta - manage to fill these concetos with deft performances without tumbling over each other and cluttering the sound up. A true coalition of pianists, so to speak.
In summary this disc is a worthy addition to the collection of anyone appreciative of Mendolssohn's sometime precocious compositional genius : it is also likely to please those who have an affection for that particularly exquisite and uplifting music of the early Romantics where the Classical predilection for good catchy melodies persisted alongside grander musical ambitions.
As for these two concertos, well, Mendelssohn's older, influential peers clearly included Mozart and Beethoven. There is the light, sparkling and fluid melodic invention characteristic of Mozart together with the weightier extended orchestral passages that one associates with Beethoven. As you'd come to expect from Naxos, the recorded sound is excellent and the pianists - Benjamin Frith and Hugh Tinney, under Proinnsias O Duinn with the RTE Sinfonietta - manage to fill these concetos with deft performances without tumbling over each other and cluttering the sound up. A true coalition of pianists, so to speak.
In summary this disc is a worthy addition to the collection of anyone appreciative of Mendolssohn's sometime precocious compositional genius : it is also likely to please those who have an affection for that particularly exquisite and uplifting music of the early Romantics where the Classical predilection for good catchy melodies persisted alongside grander musical ambitions.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This CD is superb! Mendelssohn's Concerto for 2 Pianos is enjoyable to listen to time after time as are most of his works. Invest in this music & you won't be disappointed, plus it's on a budget label.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I heard this piece on ClassicFM and had to buy it. Just superb! I am a great admirerer of Mendelssohn and have all the symphonies and Octets but did not realize that he wrote such moving piano music. Just wonderfull
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