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  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

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    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…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

    PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER

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    Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano Few works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) bear generic titles like symphony, quartet, concerto or sonata. Most have descriptive or evocative titles like Printemps, Jeux, Claire de lune, La mer, Nocturnes or Ibéria. Since chamber music tends, more than any other, to rely on the traditional forms of classical…