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Kanneh-Mason’s seemingly effortless precision of articulation, even at breakneck speed, is nothing short of awe-inspiring. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2024 More…

Release Date: 9th Aug 2024
Catalogue No: 4870257
Label: Decca

Presto Recording of the Week

9th August 2024

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
London Mozart Players
Jonathan Bloxham

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61, Scherzo (arr. Rachmaninoff)

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61, Nocture (arr. Moskowski)

Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song (arr. Liszt)

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 2 in F sharp minor

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 6 in E major 'Lullaby'

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Notturno in G minor

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Otersonate

Isata Kanneh-Mason

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Recording of the Week, Isata Kanneh-Mason plays music by the Mendelssohns

9th August 2024

Both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn are celebrated in glittering style on this new album from Isata Kanneh-Mason, also featuring the London Mozart Players directed by Jonathan Bloxham.

‘Mendelssohn’ explores three facets of one of the most famous names in classical music: the glittering Piano Concerto No.1 by Felix with the London Mozart Players; the long-lost ‘Easter Sonata’ by his sister Fanny as well as transcriptions by other composers of Mendelssohn’s most famous music. In 2024, Isata featured in the critically acclaimed film ‘The Other Mendelssohn’, exploring the life of the exceptionally talented by overlooked Fanny Mendelssohn, later Fanny Hensel. In the film, they uncover the fact that the Easter Sonata, a piece lost for 150 years, was in fact written by Fanny, not Felix. Isata was the first artist to perform the work attributed to the correct composer. The album features this world premiere recording of the new urtext edition of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata. As well as beautiful solo piano transcriptions by Liszt (‘On Wings of Song’) and Rachmaninov (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’), and two of Felix’s ‘Songs Without Words’ and Fanny’s ‘Nocturne’, also for solo piano.

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October 2024

Kanneh-Mason’s seemingly effortless precision of articulation, even at breakneck speed, is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

9th August 2024

Kanneh-Mason’s playing shows virtuosic fluidity throughout, mostly communicating the music rather than for its own sake. She, and the London Mozart Players under Jonathan Bloxham, bring an appropriately Classical approach to the music with a combination of brilliance, clarity and elegance that utilises the relatively small orchestral forces and the bright voicing of the piano.

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