Frank Braley performs piano works by Mendelssohn with Ensemble Explorations

The resonant acoustic accommodates the cello and piano pieces, finely played, but gives the Octet an unwelcome orchestral density and makes a nonsense of the start of the Finale.

Roger Nichols

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Published: January 12, 2018 at 12:37 pm

COMPOSERS: Mendelssohn
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
ALBUM TITLE: Mendelssohn
WORKS: Octet; Variations concertantes, Op. 17; Song without Words, Op. 199; Albumblatt
PERFORMER: Ensemble Explorations/Roel Dieltiens; Frank Braley (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: HMA 1951868 (2005)

The resonant acoustic accommodates the cello and piano pieces, finely played, but gives the Octet an unwelcome orchestral density and makes a nonsense of the start of the Finale.

Roger Nichols

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