This music of Mendelsohn's says to me, "This is what life is all about, and I love it.". This is who he was. How lovely. It is the next best thing to meetimg him in person. Thank you for opening your heart to us, Felix. 🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗👏👏
I love Mendelssohn, is the highest expression of perfection in the union of simplicity and the sublime. Thanks you Frank van der Laar for your beautiful interpretation.
When I learned the piano in the late seventies/early 80's, Brendel's play was a big thing in classic piano. My grandfather liked his play and tried to copy the sound of it. And he wasn't that bad a piano player. He donated himself a grand piano for his pension entry and we all loved him for it!!
I hate the word relaxarion applied to great music. I'm too deeply moved by the music to feel relaxed. If you like, it inspires by being eloquent. I played the last movement of Schumann's Phntasie op. 17 to a couple of friends and when they told me afterwards that it was relaxing music, this spoiled my whole experience of playing it to them. Mendelssohn's Symphonies are very great works. These Songs have what a faourite poet called the depth of the suoperficial but some of the Songs are as great as any written in that period. What about the funeral march?
I completely agree that music should be focused on, but as long as people can appreciate the music, then hearing it is worth it. It's one thing to sit leaned in to hear and focus hard on every single bar, and another to listen to the way each note contributes to the peace of mind of one person. As long as someone appreciates classical music, that counts as appreciation.
Mr Mendelssohn, your music is too beautiful to be described by words. I totally respect your world class talent in your compositions. Such beautiful melodies with such beautiful chord progressions. So beautiful....it's painful sometimes! RIP Sir. You deserve it after bestowing the world with your amazing music left for generations to enjoy.
I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!!!!!! MENDELSSOHN IS MY FAVOURITE COMPOSER TOGETHER WITH HIS SISTER FANNY!!!!!!!!! THEY WERE BOTH AMAZING PRODIGYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To anybody reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting you or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. may peace and calmness fill your life. ❤
The melody, in Mendelssohn Songs without words, has a special delightful feeling to relax and presents a work of poetic sensitivity that is so pure, so enchanting and magical. It is a divinely inspired music.
I love this! For a long time I listened to Kyriakou's version, which is beautifully played. But for me, van de Laar's version is intensely felt, and thus more beautiful and lyrical. It has dramatic power. Later: I listened again to Kyriakou's version, and I like it very much. We're fortunate to be able to enjoy two different interpretations.
Wunderschön! Reading the comments, I figure I'm privileged to listen (for the first time, really, to this music) to this rendition, and I can believe that...it flows as naturally and smoothly as a hillside stream.
I seem to be hearing so many shades of Schubert, I mean....so many glorious harmonies, and then there's so many wonderful moments of nothing than less, and such....masterful counterpoint.... And such masterful interpretation; such wonderous playing...THANK YOU!!!...
Mi compositor romántico preferido. Melancolía, sentimentalismo, nostalgia... romanticismo, para meditar mientras esta música cala en el espíritu. Composiciones para piano exquisitas.
Dudley Moore requested this be played for him when he came to the last hours of his life. And it was indeed the song he was listening to when he passed.
@@maddannafizz I'm sorry I used the word song I should have used the word album it was the album that was playing when he was dying I do not know what exact song was playing as he took his last breath. I'm sorry for the confusion.
The lovely Frühlingslied (Spring Song), Op. 62 No. 6, with the most appropriate time choice of how many interpretations I have heard. Well, it's what I think now.
I put this when I'm sleeping to help me and when I listen it is just sooo beautiful that I can't help falling in love with the piece and the composer!!!! THANKS SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS UPLOAD!!!!
I see his point. It did seem so accessible I was lulled into an untroubled, carefree place, until I heard 01:17:58 Andante grazioso, in A Major, Op. 62 No. 6, “Frühlingslied”, which has such a familiar past from all over the media. Then I chuckled happily. Thanks, Felix!
This is an excellent introduction to Mendelssohn. Frank van de Laar's rendering of this well-loved music is full of true sentiment, and pianistically perfect. Just listen to a piece like the Adagio in F op.53 no.4 (track 22), wistful, resigned and majestic all at the same time. An album to be loved and cherished. Highly recommended.
From 21:44 and its Harry Potter echoes to the delightful Fruhlingslied at 01:17:58 and "the Bees Wedding" at 01:28:50 (.a favourite since I was a child.)=they're all wonderful.They will never go stale.I hear bits of his other works in these snippets of music.Thank you for posting this exquisite rendition to youtube.
Grandioso, sublime, me llena el alma. Me recuerda a esa graciosa profesora de música, (le pusimos el mote, " La corchea" ) Gracias a ella, muchos de mis compañeros de colegio y yo, nos hizo adicto a la música docta y aprendimos a reconocer a estos grandes maestros. Se sentaba al piano, iniciaba una melodía y al primer o segundo compás, debíamos reconocer la obra y el autor
Without doubt the first being one among many of Mendelssohn's most beautiful and entrancing melodies, that stand on a parr with any of the greatest of composers, both profound and transporting, that musically lighten our everyday load and concerns, by the genius of their creative sincerity, drawn from a sparkling well of inspiration and solace.
I always come back to this. Despite everything else, the 10-year-old inside me still finds this to be the most beautiful music ever written. Also, protip: to remove all the ads, skip to the end, and then press the replay button.
Right up there with LIszt for inspiring, shimmering, meditative, transcendental and translucent bliss....travelling without travelling (think about it!) or drugs...just your imagination and a taste for sublime music-making...so dreamy and evocative...highly recommended...
Dr. PJ Clare Koben Gisbey Liszt appréciait beaucoup Fanny sœur aînée de Félix il trouvait ses compositions très modernes. Dommage que l’on ne remette pas « les pendules à l’heure « sur les compositions de Fanny. Comme elle n’avait pas le droit d’aller dans le monde, pas le droit d’éditer ses compositions dans le monde, son frère souvent les signait de son nom.Exemple A L’italian »
O gee, another feminist with her sob story. Fanny preferred to be published that way, even though she could choose a pseudonym to be published. Aurora Dudevan ( George Sand) is one example. Although there were women composers, writers, scientists who worked under their real names. As for Ferenz Liszt, infinite womanizer, he was glad to transcribe well known and obscure compositions for his concerts, he was a king in that.
I used to love a recording of Mendelssohn's "Songs WIthout Words". Somehow, possibly during the last (and final) house move from London to Cornwall, it may have been lost. For some reason tonight I had an impulse to listen to it which was how I found this and am thoroughly enjoying it. The second track is the one I have loved best for years.
Indeed, a magnificent rendition: technical perfection, thoughtfulness and emotion. I have compared 6 different versions. This one is the winner for me. What a joy!
Mendelssohn should be high in the top grade of the most wonderful composers ever. I have no real formal musical education. I am just a long term listener to music who over the years has come to enjoy and appreciate his (and others) genius. What I can never understand is why harmonies are present in the right hand (playing an octave the harmonies are played by the inner fingers) as the especialy lovely melodies flow. I cant see anything is added !
@@shnimmuc Who rates Mendelssohn as a 'B' Even if(for example) Beethoven is a genius IMO there is nothing that Mr B wrote that surpasses the musical elan created by Mr M's Italian symphony (bits of it) the last movement of his Piano concerto Midsummer Nights dream etc That donkey, who has a nice bellow in Midsummer Nights dream, is laughing at critics who may venerate the technical accomplishment of Mr B but such things are not the basis of the appeal of eternal music and the donkey knows that he haw he haw,, he haw he haw he haw he haw.
Cor blimey that donkey has just reminded me of Mr M's violin concerto. I agree with the donkey's assessment of that piece as surpassed by very little. The donkey is quite right when he says that many sounds made by solo violins are unpleasantt to the ear.
@@divvy1400yam600 Many musicologist and music historians rate Mendelssohn as one of the top B list composers. His symphonies are silly when compared to the Beethoven, his choral works do not match up to the great one he studied by Bach and Handel, his piano music does not compare with Chopin or Schumann, he was not innovative with the orchestra. etc.
@@shnimmuc I'm no musical expert. I listen to a lot of classical music, have done all my life. For me the acid test is when a piece really moves me. I think that has as much to do with the musician and their instrument as with the composer, also the occasion, and the listener. Personally I would never presume to rate a composer
This is some really gorgeous playing with as much drama as there is tenderness. Lots of fiery and cantabile playing. I really am looking forward to purchasing this album. To whoever designed the cover, I am absolutely in love with it. Very evocative and seamless with the font. It feels so stuck in another time and makes me very melancholic.
Merci pour ce partage et pour toutes les indications que tu nous donnes . Du " beau " à l 'état pur ! Dans notre monde que nous rendons souvent bien laid ....
Le veo componiendo en un corredor, hacia un patio arbolado, detrás de un ventanal cuadriculado de madera. Mira las estaciones y se inspira en la poesía de su época. Maravilloso.
I do not really know because I have lost my head for some time! In any case, this magnificent music beyond all reason helps me to fall asleep peacefully. And it's happy because my invasive neuroses nibble at my healthy thoughts and I go around in circles my sickly madness.
Well friend, I checked your music. It's original, but not... Very easy to hear/understand. Soothing music is on higher demand these days, I believe - and so are the number of problems we have to overtake daily.
@Bryn Webster Sorry the very late reply ！ How is your condition and your country ？ Tokyo is quiet and deep autumn . I am watching this video , But Hokkaido , where is a Japanese prefecture , is blizzard and all snow white everywhere . There are sorrow , pleasure , happiness , surprises , grief , pains , lamentation , anger and regret for the number same as population of 13 million people in autumn Tokyo . Tokyo , an asteroid , has various emotions as if Mendelssohn,s works . From Tokyo of the Land of Rising Sun ， Take care of each other Good luck ！
Na obra de Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes - Um estudo em vermelho, na página 25, há uma citação da preferência musical de Holmes por essa peça. A leitura é uma fonte inesgotável de conhecimento!
Brilliant Classics offer great interpretations at a budget price. I have the Dvorak symphonies, the Beethoven Bagetelles by Brendel and this is obviously a very high class collection of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. Thank you so much to them, to the pianist of course and the person who uploaded this. This is music for a sensitive soul who has perhaps gone through a few tough periods in life.
Stephen Hill oh you you are so right. When my youngest daughter played this to me on an organ at cave church nz I wanted to cry. Now 35 years later and she has distanced herself from my family and my husband died a month ago I hear this music and it takes me back. Thank you
Que Alma creativa maravillosa! Hay tanta espiritualidad en la creación de sus obras ,que el alma de uno ,siente el traslado a su paisaje. Lástima que solo ocurra emocionalmente.
This is so peaceful! In my mind, this is the best song made from Mendelssohn! Especially op 19 was good! (0:00~17:13)! Great! Thank you for uploading this video! Please keep uploading song! I am your fan!!!
