Middagrecital Lieder ohne Worte

The 19th Century is the century of romantic cello repertoire, and Felix Mendelssohn’s music plays a central part in it. There is no instrument that can get close to the emotion of the human voice like the cello and Mendelssohn’s music, more than that of his predecessors, is focused on the personal sentiment. An ultimate example of this are his Lieder ohne Worte. Mendelssohn’s second cello sonata has beautiful cello melodies as well as a spectacular piano part with broken piano chord rarely seen in duo sonatas. Leave that to top fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout on an Erard piano, the same type of instrument Mendelssohn himself owned. 

Cellist and composer Julius Klengel’s Impromptu for cello quartet is an extended version of Mendelssohn’s well-known Wedding March. In Wilhelm Fitzenhagen’s Konzertwalzen, Frans Helmerson – one of the most renowned cello pedagogues of today -  and three of his former students are able to channel all their virtuosity.