This curiously packaged release is one of a number that survey the complex personal and musical relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny. The program is centered on a genre ideal for the examination of that relationship: it is devoted not just to the choral music promised on the cover, but specifically to songs "im Freien zu singen" (to be sung in the open air). Both Mendelssohns composed a number of these strophic but not unsophisticated unaccompanied songs, and here as in other genres there is something ...
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This curiously packaged release is one of a number that survey the complex personal and musical relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny. The program is centered on a genre ideal for the examination of that relationship: it is devoted not just to the choral music promised on the cover, but specifically to songs "im Freien zu singen" (to be sung in the open air). Both Mendelssohns composed a number of these strophic but not unsophisticated unaccompanied songs, and here as in other genres there is something in Fanny's attempts not only of imitation of Felix's models, but also of expansion. Unfortunately, although the texts are mostly by well-known German poets, there is no instance here of them setting the same text. But you can observe instances in which Fanny adopts a technically simpler but somehow freer attitude toward the text. Sample her setting of Joseph von Eichendorff's Schöne Fremde (Beautiful Foreign Land, track 6), where the small Vocal Concert Dresden is the right size...
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