Benjamin Frith - Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (1995)
Benjamin Frith - Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 212 Mb | Total time: 65:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550940| Recorded: 1994, 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 212 Mb | Total time: 65:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550940| Recorded: 1994, 1995
The multiplicity of notes in Mendelssohn's piano music sometimes lays him open to the charge of 'note-spinning'. So what higher praise for Benjamin Frith than to say that thanks to his fluency, not a single work outstays its welcome here. The unchallengeable masterpiece is the Variations sérieuses, so enthusiastically taken up by Clara Schumann, and still a repertory work today. Frith characterises each variation with telling contrasts of tempo and touch without sacrificing the continuity and unity of the whole.
Equally importantly, he never lets us forget the sérieuses of the title.
No less impressive is his sensitively varied palette in the early E-major Sonata (unmistakable homage to Beethoven's Op-101) so often helped by subtle pedalling. But surely the recitative of the Adagio at times needs just a little more intensity and underlying urgency. Of the miniatures the six Kinderstücke ('Christmas Pieces' – written for the children of a friend) emerge with an unforced charm. As music they lack the romance of Schumann's ventures into a child's world, just as the Three Studies do of Chopin's magical revelations in this sphere. However, Frith's fingers never let him down. In the first B-flat Study he even seems to acquire a third hand to sustain its middle melody.–Joan Chissell
Performer:
Benjamin Frith, piano
Tracklist:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Three Preludes, Op. 104a
01. Prelude in B flat major
02. Prelude in B minor
03. Prelude in D major
Three Etudes, Op. 104b
04. Etude in B flat minor
05. Etude in F major
06. Etude in A minor
07. Variations sérieuses in D minor, Op. 54
Kinderstücke ("Christmas Pieces"), Op. 72
08. Allegro non troppo
09. Andante sostenuto
10. Allegretto
11. Andante con moto
12. Allegro assai
13. Vivace
14. Gondollied in A major ("Barcarole")
15. Scherzo in B minor
Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 6
16. Allegretto con espressione -
17. Tempo di Menuetto -
18. Recitativo: Adagio e senza tempo -
19. Molto allegro e vivace
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Benjamin Frith - Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (1995)
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