Chopin and Mendelssohn

Chopin and Mendelssohn

This great artist was notoriously nervous, but these last recordings, of favourite works by Chopin and Mendelssohn, capture perfectly a Romantic atmosphere which was shortly to disappear, and are most valuable and loveable. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:06 pm

COMPOSERS: Chopin and Mendelssohn
LABELS: APR
ALBUM TITLE: Alfred Cortot
WORKS: The Late Recordings, Vol.3
PERFORMER: Alfred Cortot (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: 5573

This great artist was notoriously nervous, but these last recordings, of favourite works by Chopin and Mendelssohn, capture perfectly a Romantic atmosphere which was shortly to disappear, and are most valuable and loveable.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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