Levit brings rare nobility and intensity to 14 of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, his individualised selection spanning a period from 1829 to 1844 Surfacing quietly as a digital download in ...
We hear two Songs — numbers 3 and 4 — from Book One of Felix Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. The pianist is Martin Jones.
Pianist Jeremy Denk plays two of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words": Op. 38, No. 2 in C minor and the "Spinning Song," Op. 67, No. 4 in C major. He gave the performance in NPR's Studio 4A. 5:00 ...
Felix Mendelssohn wrote his exquisite “Song Without Words” for cello and piano around 1845, but it was only published for the first time after his death in 1847. Since then, it has become a favourite ...
András Schiff's recording of the Mendelssohn Songs Without Words has long held one of several prides of place on my Felix shelf. It's a gorgeous CD, limpid, poetic and mercurial, and I love it to ...
This programme, recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall in January last year, brought together the remarkable artistry of the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires and her regular cellist partner, the ...
“Song Without Words (Pleading)”, by Florence Price, is the sixth in a set of “Seven Miniatures” for piano. Reminiscent of Mendelssohn’s own "Songs without Words," this piece opens with a few measures ...
Reflecting on Felix Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, this extraordinary quartet presents a new kind of music, and possibly a whole new genre that has never before appeared in this form either in ...