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Ep. 16. Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in G Minor. Anna Shelest
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Fanny Mendelssohn
(1805-1847)
Piano Sonata in G Minor.
Anna Shelest, piano
i. Allegro Molto Agitato
ii. Scherzo 3:23
iii. Adagio 6:44
iv. Finale. Presto 11:02
Recorded at Faust Harrison Pianos
New York City, November 2020
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A fabulous pianist playing a fabulous masterpiece written by a fabulous composer.
thank you, kindly!
The best performance of this sonata ❤❤
very kind, thank you!
What a beautiful performance and interpretation! Very beautiful and moving, it touches the soul!
thank you!
It's funny that under many Fanny's music some people says “her music is a lot like Liszt” “sounds like Brahms” and other composers that comes AFTER her.
I think you make the order wrong.
It's that many romantic composers made music that have Fanny's elements, not the other way round.
I do agree in some part of her works, there's some shades of Beethoven though.
I've noticed that as well. It could be that when hearing something unfamiliar we tend to associate it with things we know well, and as you hear or play more of that composer, their language comes into focus and we can recognize it easily.
Having just finished reading R. Larry Todd's biography of Fanny, I've learned (1) Liszt was a personal acquaintance who was absolutely smitten by Fanny's music and her abilities at the piano.... and (2) even more interesting is that in the last decade of her life, she was intimate friends with both Clara Schumann and the young Joseph Joachim, who adored both her and her music .... and those two people of course were essentially THE earliest and most important influences on Brahms at the outset of his career in the following decade - the notion that Brahms would have come to intimately know and be influenced by Fanny's work is a logical conclusion. Listen to the third movement of her String Quartet, or the Largo & Allegro con fuoco in g minor for solo piano. If one didn't know better, one would almost assume they were lost works of Brahms. Plus, they are two of her most absolutely gorgeous pieces. And of course, there is the whole thing about her playing an important role in assisting Felix in resurrecting Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1829, which was literally the event that started off the Bach Renaissance - she knew Bach's music quite well when almost nobody else did, and much of her work is very Bachian. And she loved Beethoven's last sonatas, you're right that there is an audible influence
What you are saying is really true in particular if you listen to music of the great Helene de Montgeroult. She wrote a Method with many pieces for piano, as she herself was a great pianist, between 1788 and 1810/12. She gave her Method to Pelletier in Paris in 1812 for publishing it....So, many people listening to her music say : it sounds like Chopin, Schubert, sometimes Schumann...but she could have been their grand mother !! Simply she was inventing a new idiom...she is already a romantic ...ante litteram...
What a wonderful champion you are of this work! The best on youtube at this moment. Respect. What an unruly composer Fanny Hensel is! Angular. Very passionate. Harmonically very daring. Not nearly as 'appropriate' as Felix (with all due respect). This is the period in which composers tried to reinvent the piano sonata after Beethoven and Fanny really has found a unique voice. Thanks for convincing me!
thank you for your kind comment, when I first played through it I thought it might have been influenced by late Beethoven, those thrills in the second movement especially.
And don't forget Liszt with al these tremolos and arpeggios (with all these diminished sevenths)! She also must have known her Hanon backwards (part three). What a hauting melodies the Scherzo has! I think Fanny Mendelssohn tries to lengthen the (short) melodies/motives in a Beethovenian fashion. She also explores them harmonically in a way that resembles Beethoven (modulating in a far fetched key and then repeating the new key until you forgot how you got there ;-)). She certainly wasn't frightened! Also think of the bass rumblings at the end (late also Beethoven (Op. 111 end of the introduction?))
If I may be so bold: have you considered taking up Fanny's Easter sonata? Its an earlier work but I think equally wonderful with a Bachian fugue and recitatives like Beethoven Op. 110. I'd love to hear you play it, but obviously it's (again) a lot of work...
Of course you've already done a lot for Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn with your equally wonderful Das Jahr...
@@AlbertJohnLuth yes, I looked at it and would definitely want to learn it eventually, maybe for the Easter next year ): Right now I'm focusing on Das Jahr and hope to play it in recitals once things pick up again with concerts. I think it is her most difficult piece for the piano just the scope of it, it is quite intimidating actually. So i'd like to have more time with it to dig deeper.
I honestly like this more than her brother’s piano sonatas. Great job!!
Thank you! Let the sibling rivalry commence!
She is a older sister after all !
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This is such a wonderful performance! I'm analyzing this sonata for a class project right now and watching and hearing you perform makes the homework that much more enjoyable! I'll definitley be watching an listening to your work from now on. I hope you continue to reach wider audiences through this channel. Thank you for making beautiful music and sharing it here on UA-cam, it is much appreciated!
Thank you, Julia, for your kind words. How wonderful that you are doing this project. Is this something you chose yourself or a part of the school curriculum? I'm asking because when I was in school, this wasn't a subject I ever came across in class. But I know things have been changing.
@@ShelestatthePiano Yes, I did get to choose this one myself! There were some perameters, specifically that it be a multi-movement late classical or romantic work that somehow breaks from the textbook four-movement model of most multi-movement instrumental works of those eras. But within those perameters we got to choose whatever we wanted to analyze because this is the final project. In this class the regular homework was just assigned specific peices, but there were other smaller projects that were similar with perameters and choice. I chose this one because I always feel such a strong connection to music by Fanny Mendelssohn.
@@musicandflowers14 well to me this piece is a perfect case study of transition from classical to romantic style. When I was was first learning it I had a more structured approach and it was loosening up a bit the more I played it. In a concert setting I find that romantic approach is most effective but for the recording I cooled it down a bit. Good luck with your paper! I’m sure your professors will appreciate having some new infusion into the repertoire canon!
Thank you! I was searching for a good recording of this on UA-cam and you nailed it 👏🏾
thank you, it is a fantastic piece!
you make the piano sing...congrats
thank you!
My favorite and most incredible artist at the piano. Thank you for your musical gifts!🙏🏻🙏🏻🤗
You are too kind, Leopold!
Fabulous playing, incredible composition. Thank you for spearheading such a marvelous project! I've been seeking out and supporting music composed by women since 2000, when I became involved with the Women Composers Festival of Hartford. Congratulations on your exhilarating performance of this piece.
Thank you, Patrice! I have only been playing women composers for the last 3 years and that is after 32 years of piano playing, so I have a lot to catch up to:) but it has been fascinating to discover so much great music outside of the mainstream and figure out the interpretive approach to each composer- it is definitely a lifelong process. I see that you had Judith Zaimont’s music performed at your festival- I played at the same concert with the premiere of her 4th Symphony at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and got to know her a little bit.
@@ShelestatthePiano I know Judith's sister, Doris Lang Kosloff, who is also a pianist, opera director, and Director of Vocal Studies at the Hartt School of Music. Two impressive women! When I started learning about all the music composed by women, I was amazed at the depth and breadth of what exists. And one can only imagine how much of it has been lost. Our Unitarian-Universalist congregation is performing (virtually) some of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's "Gartenlieder" choral pieces this Sunday. I'll be giving a brief talk about the challenges she faced as a woman attempting to compose during the 1800s. It's been fascinating to learn more about her.
So wonderfully played- what an amazing piece!!
Thank you very much!
Just found your channel and I'm loving the female composer spotlights! So glad I get to hear you play again 😍
Tracy, how wonderful to hear from you, please give our best to your whole family!
Very beautiful!
Thank you very much!
Wonderful performance of a great work I've recorded last year. Your interpretation is full of inventiveness and I feel touched by it. I like the way you play detached notes in the left hand in the 1st and 4th movements.
Thank you so much, I enjoy playing this piece and every time there is something new to uncover!
Bravo!
Thank for sharing this lovely piece.
I use to learn the mov.1,but I think my articulate not good as well on sec mov therefore I quit a bit.
Thanks you share your record. I proved me wanna back to learn this masterpiece.
I love how u control piano to forte. Very clean like raindrop on glass.
I'm very very love this piece. Since I hear this piece randomly on UA-cam. I do hard search to find the sheet because I can't find this sheet at Taiwan(even on internet). So I buy it from mail by Euro
But it's worth, because it's such lovely piece.
Do you use IMSLP online music library? It is a free resource, I got my music there.
@@ShelestatthePiano yeah, I mean her piece on imslp is few .
I didn't find this sonata at that time. Also sometimes IMSLP's sheet not that clean to read. Therefore I buy my own sheet. It's worth
Oh là là what a sonata !! And you are a wonderful pianist !! There is another sonata that it is beautiful ..perhaps in C ? It ha a wonderful movement with a single theme as the beginning very beautiful....would be wonderful hear you performing it....I like a lot of Fanny'lusic also the cantate like Hiob Cantata that it is really wonderful ....with all the limits to her genius due to her gender she anyway wrote some beautiful music .... Thank you !!
thank you! yes, there is a beautiful Sonata in C minor, there is also recently discovered Easter Sonata
@@ShelestatthePiano yes i found also this sonata recently discovered, on UA-cam... the piece I spoke in my first answer is the Lied in E flat Major, not the sonata in C .....it is really beautiful too.... this is the time for music of women, and more generally speaking Story of the women, to come out....Also music of Helene de Nervo de Montgeroult is really beautiful...
@@pilouetmissiou i recently discovered Helene de Montgeroult myself, amazing composer i recorded a few of her etudes here
@@ShelestatthePianooh I will look after it then....there are also beautiful sonata from her and all the studies are beautiful and some already very romantic...she was very creative. If the women, like you for example, do not play the music written by women, who ?
Holy shit!
This is more like Brahms to me.
perhaps a precursor?