Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Works (Béatrice Rauchs)

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Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn

• (01) Piano Sonata in G minor
• (05) Prelude in E minor
• (06) Character Pieces, MA Ms. 44
• (12) 3 mélodies, Op. 4
• (15) 3 mélodies, Op. 5

Béatrice Rauchs, piano
Date: 1997
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/composer/mendelssohn-hensel-fanny/fanny-mendelssohn-piano-music

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Review

PERFORMANCE: ***** / SOUND: *****

I’ll stick my neck out straightaway and say that, on the whole, I prefer Fanny’s piano music to her more famous brother’s. The Mélodies have much the same place in her output that the Songs without Words have in Felix’s, but they have greater depth and the accompaniments are a more important part of the texture. The Sonata is a particularly fine work, its opening Allegro intense and passionate with agitated rhythms projected over driving left-hand accompaniments, its scherzo light and airy. The Prelude in E minor reflects Fanny’s lifelong study of the music of JS Bach. Béatrice Rauchs is ideal in this repertoire and produces a disc which no genuine lover of Romantic piano music should be without.

-- Wadham Sutton, BBC Music Magazine

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Fanny Mendelssohn [Hensel] (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German pianist and composer, the sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn. Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child, but was limited by prevailing attitudes of the time toward women. She still composed over 460 pieces of music, include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. A number of her songs were originally published under his brother's name. In recent years, her music has become better known thanks to concert performances and a number of CDs being released on labels such as Hyperion and CPO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Mendelssohn

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Béatrice Rauchs (born July 27, 1962) is a Luxembourgian pianist. Rauchs studied music at the Conservatories in Luxembourg and Metz, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and the Academy of Music in Basel. She studied with teachers such as Aldo Ciccolini, Rudolf Buchbinder and attended master-classes with Tatiana Nikolayeva. Rauchs has given concerts in most European countries, as well as making recordings for France Musique, Swedish Television, Radio Saarbrücken, RAI and BIS record. Since 1987 Rauchs has been a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Luxembourg City.

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Rauchs-Beatrice.htm

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