Mon 07 September 2009
Decca releases the new CD "Mendelssohn Discoveries"

The new CD "Mendelssohn Discoveries" includes the World Premiere Recording of the Concerto in E minor reconstructed by Marcello Bufalini, recorded by Roberto Prosseda with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly.From Decca Clsssics press release: 

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.3 / Symphony No.3 (London version, 1842) / The Hebrides (Rome version, 1830)
Roberto Prosseda, piano
Gewandhausorchester
Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Catalogue Number
478 1525 9

International Release Date
September 2009

TRACKLISTING

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
ed: Thomas Schmidt-Beste
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op.56 "Scottish Symphony"
1. Movt I Andante con moto
2. Movt II Vivace non trope
3. Movt III Adagio
4. Movt IV Allegro vivacissimo

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
orchestrated by Christian Voss
5. Scottish Symphony "sketch"

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
reconstructed and finished by Marcelo Bufalini
Piano Concerto No. 3
Roberto Prosseda, piano
6. Movt I - Allegro
7. Movt II - Andante
8. Movt III - Allegro brillante

Mendelssohn -Bartholdy
9. Hebrides Overture ("Fingals Cave") , Op. 26 -
Rome Version 
RECORDING INFORMATION

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Gewandhausorchester in Mendelssohn's tometown of Leipzig, in a brand new recording to celebrate the bicentenary year of the composer's birth.

Mendelssohn was himself a Music Director of the Gewandhausorchester. Here, under his successor Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra celebrates the bicentenary of the composer's birth with world premiere recordings of earlier versions of his music - as well as a major reconstruction of his Piano Concerto No.3.

• 2009 is the Mendelssohn year: 200 years since his birth. Here, Decca celebrates some of his most interesting and beautiful works. Maestro Riccardo Chailly conducts the orchestra of which Mendelssohn himself was a Music Director, in the town of Leipzig where Mendelssohn lived and worked. He is joined by acclaimed pianist Roberto Prosseda.

• FOUR WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS: Mendelssohn left the 3rd movement of his Piano Concerto in E minor unfinished. The Mendelssohn specialist Marcello Bufalini reconstructed and finished this Concerto. The version on this disc, by Bufalini, was first performed by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in 2007 but, until now, has never been recorded.

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