Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Complete Songs, Vol. 3: The Other Mendelssohn

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I particularly appreciate Manuel Walser’s warm, flexible sound, which fuses clarity of text with Mendelssohn’s beautiful musical lines. Susana Gaspar’s rich voice brings grandeur to the repertoire.... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: CHRCD124
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 59 minutes

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Mendelssohn, Fanny: 6 Lieder, Op. 1: I. Morgenständchen

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Ich kann wohl manchmal singen

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Malcolm Martineau, Gary Griffiths

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Im Herbste Op. 10 No. 4 (Geibel)

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Malcolm Martineau, Gary Griffiths

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 5 Lieder, Op. 10: II. Vorwurf

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Malcolm Martineau, Gary Griffiths

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Traurige Wege

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Der Eichwald brauset (Schiller)

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Gegenwart

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Malcolm Martineau, Gary Griffiths

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Gleich Merlin, dem eitlen Weisen

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Das Meer erglanzte weit hinaus

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Fichtenbaum und Palme (Text: Heinrich Heine)

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Ach, die Augen sind es wieder

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 6 Lieder, Op. 9: IV. Die frühen Gräber

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 6 Lieder, Op. 1: III. Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass

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Malcolm Martineau, Kitty Whately

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Harfners lied

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Dämmrung senkte sich von oben (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Suleika (Willemer)

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Die Schiffende (Hölty)

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Kein Blick der Hoffnung

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Malcolm Martineau, Gary Griffiths

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 6 Lieder, Op. 9: VI. Die Mainacht

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Über allen Gipfel ist Ruh

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: Wanderers Nachtlied

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Malcolm Martineau, Manuel Walser

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 5 Lieder, Op. 10: I. Nach Süden

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Malcolm Martineau, Kitty Whately

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 6 Lieder, Op. 1: II. Wanderlied

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Malcolm Martineau, Kitty Whately

Mendelssohn, Fanny: 5 Lieder, Op. 10: V., Bergeslust

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Malcolm Martineau, Susana Gaspar

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For this third volume in a complete survey of Mendelssohn songs, Malcolm Martineau shines the spotlight on ‘the other Mendelssohn’, with a complete volume of songs by his sister Fanny Hensel. Her professional attitude to domestic music-making is decribed by Martineau as ‘revolutionary’ and her early death, within five months of her celebrated brother, was a great loss to the musical world. Despite his enthusiasm and support for her work, Felix Mendelssohn did not approve of her publishing her work – but thankfully for us she defied it, daring to publish her Opus 1 songs under her own name a year before her death in 1847. For many years her music was appraised in the context of her brother’s work, considered as lesser clones of his output. Now that more of her work is known, that opinion has changed thanks to work by scholars including Steven Rogers pointing to Fanny’s Bachian voice-leading in numerous passages, her complex interweaving of voice and piano parts, and more intense chromaticism than her brother achieves. The settings are of spring songs, of poetry by Eichendorff, Lenau, Schiller, Goethe and even Heine who she knew personally but did not like, but admitted to be a great poet. Malcolm Martineau has assembled, as always, a cast of wonderful young singers for this refreshing and important repertoire. Both volumes one and two have been highly critically acclaimed for both performance and sound quality.

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Christmas 2017

I particularly appreciate Manuel Walser’s warm, flexible sound, which fuses clarity of text with Mendelssohn’s beautiful musical lines. Susana Gaspar’s rich voice brings grandeur to the repertoire. All singers are supported by Malcolm Martineau’s delicate handling of the piano textures.

February 2018

Martineau’s programme is carefully crafted to emphasise points of contrast not only between individual songs but also between four very different singers…Gaspar’s silvery soprano sounds exquisite in ‘Die Mainacht’ and unearthly in ‘Die frühen Gräber’…Martineau binds everything together, meanwhile, with playing of great dexterity and eloquence.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Complete Songs, Vol. 3

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