International Mendelssohn Festival
Hensel / Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Brother and sister
This musical reading with letters and works for cello and piano from the pens of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn shows the connection between what was probably the most inspired brother-and-sister pairs of composers in music history. From childhood on, they not only had a close musical cooperation, they also wrote to each other in detail and in high literary quality all their lives, exchanging ideas and observations on the music of their time, the society around them and their special relationship: a correspondence as fond as it was intense and witty.
Performers
Barbara Auer reading
Christian Maintz reading
Jens Peter Maintz violoncello
Annika Treutler piano
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Variations concertantes für Violoncello und Klavier D-Dur op. 17
Fanny Hensel
Sonata o fantasia für Violoncello und Klavier g-Moll
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (On Wings of Song) / from: Six Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 34
– Interval –
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Zweiter und Dritter Satz aus Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier D-Dur op. 58
Fanny Hensel
Capriccio As-Dur für Violoncello und Klavier
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Nachtlied op. 71/6 / aus: Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier
Fanny Hensel
Bergeslust
sowie Lesungen aus Briefen von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy