Prolific pianist Howard Shelley tends toward complete cycles, having issued large sets of Mozart, Rachmaninov, and Clementi in the past, as well as numerous entries in the Hyperion label's gigantic "Romantic Piano Concerto" series. With this release, he reached the fifth volume in his ongoing Mendelssohn series. Mendelssohn's piano music is not well known for the most part, except for the Lieder ohne Worte ("Songs Without Words"). One can see why this is; certainly, it suffers in connection with the contemporaneous music of ...
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Prolific pianist Howard Shelley tends toward complete cycles, having issued large sets of Mozart, Rachmaninov, and Clementi in the past, as well as numerous entries in the Hyperion label's gigantic "Romantic Piano Concerto" series. With this release, he reached the fifth volume in his ongoing Mendelssohn series. Mendelssohn's piano music is not well known for the most part, except for the Lieder ohne Worte ("Songs Without Words"). One can see why this is; certainly, it suffers in connection with the contemporaneous music of Schumann and its realms of imagination. Yet Schumann admired Mendelssohn (who told him he had developed his pianistic technique by working like a horse), and Shelley makes a strong case for this music. The Songs Without Words are distributed among the volumes of the set, paired with other works that may be fairly familiar (the Variations Sérieuses, Op. 54) or all but unknown (the posthumously issued Three Preludes, Op. 104a and Three Studies, Op. 104b, which stand head and shoulders...
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