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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words II

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: Naxos

Release Date February 15, 1994

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
by: Daniel Barenboim

Release Date September 16, 1996
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Piano Masterworks

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
by: Various Artists

Release Date October 27, 2008
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Chopin - Complete 1950S RECORDINGS /STEFAN ASKENASE

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: DG Original Masters

Release Date January 17, 2005
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Romantic Piano Music

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
by: Various Artists

Release Date October 16, 2000
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2; Songs without words

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
by: András Schiff Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Charles Dutoit

Release Date January 24, 2000
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Mendelssohn: Piano Favourites

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: Nimbus

Release Date August 23, 2003
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words and other Piano Favourites

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: Nimbus

Release Date July 01, 1994
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (highlights)/Mendelssohn: Songs without Words (highlights)

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: Références

Release Date July 01, 1998
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Piano Classics

Search: No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
from: Nimbus

Release Date January 11, 2001
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More: