Songs Without Words Matthias Kirschnereit

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Book 1, op. 19b
• 1 I. Andante con moto in E Major 03:15
• 2 II. Andante espressivo in A Minor 02:54
• 3 III. Molto allegro e vivace in A Major 02:17
• 4 IV. Moderato in A Major 01:54
• 5 V. Piano agitato in F-Sharp Minor 03:49
• 6 VI. Andante sostenuto in G Minor Venetianisches Gondellied 02:21
• Book 2, op. 30:
• 7 I. Andante espressivo in E-Flat Major 04:28
• 8 II. Allegro di molto in B-Flat Major 02:05
• 9 III. Adagio non troppo in E Major 02:12
• 10 IV. Agitato e con fuoco in B Minor 02:45
• 11 V. Andante grazioso in D Major 02:03
• 12 VI. Allegretto tranquillo in F-Shark Minor Venezianisches Gondellied 03:05
• Book 3, op. 38 :
• 13 I. Con moto in E-Flat Major 02:35
• 14 II. Allegro non troppo in C Minor 02:35
• 15 III. Presto e molto vivace in E Major 02:17
• 16 IV. Andante in A Major 02:23
• 17 V. Agitato in A Minor 03:02
• 18 VI. Andante con moto in A-Flat Major Duett 03:35
• Book 4, op. 53:
• 19 I. Andante con moto in A-Flat Major 03:44
• 20 II. Allegro non troppo in E-Flat Major 03:09
• 21 III. Presto agitato in G Minor Gondellied 02:44
• 22 IV. Adagio in F Major Abendlied 03:11
• 23 V. Allegro con fuoco in A Minor Volkslied 02:38
• 24 VI. Molto allegro vivace in A Major 03:13
• Book 5, op. 62:
• 25 I. Andante espressivo in G Major 03:00
• 26 II. Allegro con fuoco in B-Flat Major 01:54
• 27 III. Andante maestoso in E Minor Trauermarsch 02:40
• 28 IV. Allegro con anima, mit vieler Innigkeit vorzutragen in G Major 01:37
• 29 V. Andante con moto in A Minor Venezianisches Gondellied 02:25
• 30 VI. Allegretto grazioso in A Major Frühlingslied 02:16
• Book 6, op. 67:
• 31 I. Andante in E-Flat Major 02:38
• 32 II. Allegro leggiero in F-Sharp Minor 02:18
• 33 III. Andante tranquillo in B-Flat Major 03:03
• 34 IV. Presto in C Major Spinnerlied 02:01
• 35 V. Moderato in B Minor 02:53
• 36 VI. Allegretto non troppo in E Major 02:46
• Book 7, op. 85:
• 37 I. Andante espressivo in F Major 02:39
• 38 II. Allegro agitato in A Minor 01:15
• 39 III. Presto in E-Flat Major 02:22
• 40 IV. Andante sostenuto in D Major 03:51
• 41 V. Allegretto in A Major 01:43
• 42 VI. Allegretto con moto in B-Flat Major 02:18
• Book 8, op. 102:
• 43 I. Andante un poco agitato in E Minor 02:33
• 44 II. Adagio in D Major 03:32
• 45 III. Presto in C Major Kinderstück 01:25
• 46 IV. Andante un poco agitato in G Minor 02:36
• 47 V. Allegro vivace in A Major Kinderstück 01:20
• 48 VI. Andante in C Major 02:04
• Book 9, Sechs Lieder ohne Worte ohne Opuszahl:
• 49 I. Ein Lied ohne Worte an Fräulein Doris Loewe in F Major 03:19
• 50 II. Allegro vivace in D Minor Reiter-Lied 02:01
• 51 III. Espressivo & Allegro in E-Flat Major Lied 02:23
• 52 IV. Andante in A Major Lied 01:37
• 53 V. Allegro molto in F-Sharp Minor 02:18
• 54 VI. Allegretto non troppo in A Major Gondellied 02:30
• Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 2:
• 55 I. Andante in G Major 04:51
• 56 II. Andante con moto in B Minor 03:41
• 57 III. Allegro grazioso in E Major 03:18
• 58 IV. Allegretto molto vivace in A Major 03:29
• Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 6:
• 59 I. Andante espressivo in A-Flat Major 03:30
• 60 II. Allegro vivace in B Major 04:26
• 61 III. Andante cantabile in F-Sharp Major 04:35
• 62 IV. Allegro molto in A Minor Il saltarello romano 03:04
• Vier Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte, op. 8:
• 63 I. Allegro moderato in B Minor 05:25
• 64 II. Andante con espressione in A Minor 03:13
• 65 III. Larghetto in D-Flat Major Lied 02:57
• 66 IV. Presto in E Major Wanderlied 03:13
• 67 Pastorella in A Major 03:41
• Total Runtime 03:08:54

Info for Songs Without Words

Berlin Classics now opens the 'ninth volume', with six unpublished pieces Matthias Kirschnereit has compiled for this complete edition of all the Songs without Words composed by both Felix and Fanny….

'Felix has given me three things: a piece in my family album, a 'Song without Words' such as he has written a number of so beautifully in recent times, another piano piece (...) and a large work for four choirs.' Mendelssohn's elder sister Fanny wrote that in late 1828 to Carl Klingemann, a London diplomat friend of the Mendelssohn family. The 'Song without Words' she refers to is the one marked Espressivo & Allegro which Felix dedicated to her for her twenty-third birthday on November 14, 1828, and which is not included in any of the eight published volumes. It now opens the 'ninth volume', six unpublished pieces Matthias Kirschnereit has compiled for this complete edition of all the Songs without Words composed by Felix and Fanny.

The piece that gives its name to this new solo piano genre was later published as op. 19[b] no. 4 and was initially just called 'A Song'. It was written on September 14, 1829, during Mendelssohn's first visit to England (from April to December) and is dedicated to Sophia Louise Dance, the youngest daughter of the English musician William Dance.

Bearing in mind that Mendelssohn was ten when he wrote his first surviving composition in late 1819, his production of over fifty Songs without Words accompanied him for the two decades between 1828 and his death in 1847, which is more than half of his creative period.

Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn developed a new piano genre - the opposite of speechlessness in music.

Matthias Kirschnereit, piano

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