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.