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Prosseda has a magic touch ... Listen to the six Lieder from opus 102 and you will hear in a nutshell what Prosseda can make the instrument do. I honestly doubt anybody will be able to challenge him in these Mendelssohn works.Roberto Prosseda is the most generous of all pianists here. He doesn’t just make up a single CD’s worth of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, he presents every single one of them, plus all the unpublished sketches – on two discs! As far as I know this is the first ever complete recording of all the Wordless Songs. With the risk of the Mendelssohn fan club attacking me, I cannot say it is usually a pleasure to listen to all of these
piano miniatures in one sitting, but Prosseda is such a master pianist that you forget the limitations Mendelssohn showed in some of the works. As their title suggests, these are songs and should be played as such on a piano – not easy to do, because the percussive instrument cannot sustain the tone for long. Prosseda has a magic touch and at times his tone exceeds what one would hear even from the true masters of the piano. Listen to the six Lieder from opus 102 and you will hear in a nutshell what Prosseda can make the instrument do. I honestly doubt anybody will be able to challenge him in these Mendelssohn works.
CD Review: Lieder ohne Worte
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