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"Mendelssohn's Songs without Words are very well known, yet little known at the same time," says Bertrand Chamayou. "There are 48 of them in all, but fewer than ten of them feature regularly in concert programmes." With this recording of the complete Songs without Words the French pianist applies his probing imagination to a collection of pieces which, over a period of nearly 200 years, have remained captivating for their refinement, charm and intimacy of tone. "The Songs without Words constitute a kind of journal that Mendelssohn kept intermittently in the course of his life," he explains. "He appropriated a particular form, the Lied, which is all about text and narrative... a form which creates it's own world in the space of just a few minutes... The absence of text - as one constantly strives to phrase and breathe like a singer, and to exercise one's imagination without the support of words - takes the pianist on a journey into an interior world." To quote Mendelssohn himself, this is the kind of music that "fills the soul with a thousand things better than words".

Tracklist:

  1. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 1, Andante Con Moto, MWV U86 "Sweet Remembrance"
  2. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 2, Andante Espressivo, MWV U80
  3. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 3, Molto Allegro E Vivace, MWV U89 "Hunting Song"
  4. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 4, Moderato, MWV U73
  5. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 5, Poco Agitato, MWV U90
  6. Songs Without Words, Book I, Op. 19B: No. 6, Andante Sostenuto, MWV U78 "Venetian Gondola Song"
  7. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 1, Andante Espressivo, MWV U103
  8. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 2, Allegro Di Molto, MWV U77
  9. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 3, Adagio Non Troppo, MWV U104
  10. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 4, Agitato Con Fuoco, MWV U98
  11. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 5, Andante Grazioso, MWV U97
  12. Songs Without Words, Book II, Op. 30: No. 6, Allegretto Tranquillo, MWV U110 "Venetian Boat Song"
  13. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 1, Con Moto, MWV U121
  14. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 2, Allegro Non Troppo, MWV U115
  15. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 3, Presto E Molto Vivace, MWV U107
  16. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 4, Andante, MWV U120
  17. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 5, Agitato, MWV U137
  18. Songs Without Words, Book III, Op. 38: No. 6, Andante Con Moto, MWV U119 "Duetto"
  19. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 1, Andante Con Moto, MWV U143
  20. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 2, Allegro Non Troppo, MWV U109
  21. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 3, Presto Agitato, MWV U144
  22. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 4, Adagio, MWV U114
  23. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 5, Allegro Con Fuoco, MWV U153 "Folksong"
  24. Songs Without Words, Book IV, Op. 53: No. 6, Molto Allegro Vivace, MWV U154
  25. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 1, Andante Espressivo, MWV U185
  26. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 2, Allegro Con Fuoco, MWV U181
  27. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 3, Andante Maestoso, MWV U177 "Trauermarsch"
  28. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 4, Allegro Con Anima, MWV U175
  29. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 5, Andante Con Moto, MWV U151 "Venetian Boat Song"
  30. Songs Without Words, Book V, Op. 62: No. 6, Allegretto Grazioso, MWV U161 "Spring Song"
  31. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 1, Andante, MWV U180
  32. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 2, Allegro Leggiero, MWV U145
  33. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 3, Andante Tranquillo, MWV U102
  34. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 4, Presto, MWV U182 "Spinner's Song"
  35. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 5, Moderato, MWV U184
  36. Songs Without Words, Book VI, Op. 67: No. 6, Allegro Non Troppo, MWV U188 "Cradle Song"
  37. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 1, Andante Espressivo, MWV U150
  38. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 2, Allegro Agitato, MWV U101
  39. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 3, Presto, MWV U111
  40. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 4, Andante Sostenuto, MWV U190
  41. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 5, Allegretto, MWV U191
  42. Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85: No. 6, Allegretto Con Moto, MWV U155
  43. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 1, Andante Un Poco Agitato, MWV U162
  44. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 2, Adagio, MWV U192
  45. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 3, Presto, MWV U195
  46. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 4, Un Poco Agitato Ma Andante, MWV U152
  47. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 5, Allegro Vivace, MWV U194
  48. Songs Without Words, Book VIII, Op. 102: No. 6, Andante, MWV U172

UPC: 0827568019615
Label: Erato
Release Date: 1.8.27
Format: CD