Ya-Fei Chuang plays Mendelssohn - WGBH Classical Performance
In these exquisite parlour pieces, Mendelssohn wanted to prove that music can say more by itself than it can w...
ith a text to go with it. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but music, according to this composer, "..fills the soul with a thousand things better than words."
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Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words (a selection)
Ya-Fei Chuang, piano
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Op. 19 No. 1 in E major; Op. 62 No. 5 in A minor (Venetian Gondola Song); Op. 102 No. 5 in A major; Op. 30 No. 6 in F-sharp minor; Op. 85 No. 4 in D major; Op. 38 No. 2 in C minor; Op. 62 No. 1 in G major; Op. 67 No. 4 in C major.
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/yaStudies/faculty/chuangYF.html
Recorded in a live broadcast in WGBH's Studio One on June 21st, 2005
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