Mendelssohn from the Benvenue Fortepiano Trio

Your free download this week is from Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 (Avie AV 2187). The Scherzo is performed here by the Benvenue Fortepiano Trio on period instruments – an 1841 Viennese fortepiano, a Dutch violin of 1770 and an English cello of 1811.

Mendelssohn composed his first piano trio in 1839. 'It is the master trio of today,' wrote his friend and fellow composer Robert Schumann in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. 'A lovely composition which in years to come will still delight our grand- and great-grandchildren.'

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