Mendelssohn: Songs & Duets, Vol.5
Label: Hyperion Catalog: CDA67753 Format: CD Katherine Broderick, soprano; Hannah Morrison, soprano; Anna Grevelius, mezzo-soprano; Finnur Bjarnason, tenor; Stephan Loges, baritone; James Rutherford, baritone; Eugene Asti, pianoFelix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Eugene Asti's pioneering Mendelsson Songs and Duets series, containing a large amount of first recordings and rarities, concludes with this fifth volume, a generous two CDs for the price of one. The contents range from Mendelssohn's first extant composition of any kind - a birthday song presented to his father by the precocious ten-year-old composer - to settings of the German romantic poets Schiller, Goethe and Eichendorff,which place Mendelssohn firmly in the canon of the great Lieder composers. Price: $19.98 |