NI 7074/5
Total Playing Time 2 hours 13 mins
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Mendelssohn
Scottish & Italian Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 1
Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman, director
Christopher Kite, fortepiano, Benjamin Hudson, violin
Mendelssohn had been encouraged by his mentor Goethe and teacher Zelter to
visit Italy, and did so in 1830. While in Rome he started composing a new symphony
inspired by "the land of bright skies and warmth", and wrote to his sister in February
of the next year that "the Italian symphony is coming on well: it will be the happiest
piece I have yet composed." At the same time he writes that a Piano Concerto "I
would like to write for myself for Paris, is beginning to whirl in my head ..."
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