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CD Review: Lieder ohne Worte
Prosseda's devotion to the music of Mendelssohn revelas itself in his compelling accounts of the Songs without Words...Alongside Daniel Baremboim for Deutsche Gramophone, this is the finest set of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words now available.
Prosseda's devotion to the music of Mendelssohn revelas itself in his compelling accounts of the Songs without Words...Notoriously difficult to bring off convincingly, they require a sensitivity to line and texture of almost Mozartian proportions. This is where Roberto Prosseda scores so highly. His scholastic devotion to Mendelssohn stretches back many years, and yet he plays thus poignant microcosmos with a freshness and supreme naturalness that sounds almost as though he is discovering their embracing magic for the first time. Even when Mendelssohn is at his most elf-like (as in the famous "Bee's Wedding"), Prosseda shapes the music in long, elegant phrases that soar and compel utterly. Alongside Daniel Baremboim for Deutsche Gramophone, this is the finest set of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words now available.
Julian Haylock
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