Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Marcy Rosen (violoncello) Lydia Artymiw (piano)
These are predominantly lyrical performances. Rosen has a full, warm tone, and phrases with an emphasis on songlike legato that links the two sonatas and Variations concertantes to the composer’s...
Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Marcy Rosen (violoncello) Lydia Artymiw (piano)
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These are predominantly lyrical performances. Rosen has a full, warm tone, and phrases with an emphasis on songlike legato that links the two sonatas and Variations concertantes to the composer’s...
About
Paul Mendelssohn, Felix's younger brother, was a banker by profession but an accomplished amateur cellist, and it is to him that we owe Felix Mendelssohn's three major compositions for cello and piano. This new recording presents Mendelssohn's complete output for cello and piano, and includes the three large scale works, as well as two short pieces, performed by leading virtuosi Marcy Rosen and Lydia Artymiw.
Contents and tracklist
- Marcy Rosen (cello), Lydia Artymiw (piano)
- Marcy Rosen (cello), Lydia Artymiw (piano)
- Marcy Rosen (cello), Lydia Artymiw (piano)
- Marcy Rosen (cello), Lydia Artymiw (piano)
- Marcy Rosen (cello), Lydia Artymiw (piano)
Awards and reviews
July 2018
These are predominantly lyrical performances. Rosen has a full, warm tone, and phrases with an emphasis on songlike legato that links the two sonatas and Variations concertantes to the composer’s Songs Without Words…[Artymiw’s] rhythmic energy and pellucid tone provide an effective foil for the unrelieved mellowness of Rosen’s playing.
September 2018
The Song without Words is perhaps the best vehicle for Lydia Artymiw’s playing and she sings out its melody with humanity and natural phrasing. The Ensemble is very good and Lydia never fails in the rippling semiquavers that Mendelssohn so favours. Rosen’s cello has a wonderfully rich C-string tone that is showcased in the opening theme of the Variations concertantes.
