Tag: István Várdai

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    Felix Mendelssohn Variations  Concertantes Op. 17 Felix was not the only musician in the Mendelssohn family. His older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) was a prodigiously talented pianist and composer, although she chose marriage over a public career, and his younger brother Paul Mendelssohn (1812-1874) was no slouch as a cellist, to judge by the…