Mendelssohn-Hensel / Craxton / Dorn Complete Songs 1 CD

A gifted composer of some 500 works, mainly songs and small piano pieces, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel has been eclipsed by the fame of her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn. Yet her sensitivity in setting the German Romantic poets she loved, principally Goethe, Heine, Geibel and von Eichendorff, warrants greater attention. Like Clara Schumann, whose songs Dorothea Craxton has also recorded for Naxos (8.570747), Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. possessed a distinct and richly powerful musical voice, by turns introspective, melancholic.

1. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 1: Schwanenlied 2. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 1: Wanderlied 3. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 1: Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen 4. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 1: Mayenlied 5. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 1: Gondellied 6. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 7: Nachtwanderer 7. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 7: Erwin 8. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 7: Du Bist Die Ruh 9. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 7: Bitte 10. Songs (6) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 7: Dein Ist Mein Herz 11. Songs (5) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 10: Vorwurf 12. Songs (5) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 10: Abendbild 13. Songs (5) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 10: Im Herbste 14. Songs (5) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 10: Bergeslust 15. Die Stille, for Voice ; Piano (Eichendorff-Lieder) 16. Liebe in Der Fremde, for Voice ; Piano (Eichendorff-Lieder) 17. Traum, for Voice ; Piano (Eichendorff-Lieder) 18. Nacht Ist Mie Ein Stilles Meer, for Voice ; Piano (Eichendorff-Lieder) 19. Ich Kann Wohl Manchmal Singen, for Voice ; Piano (Eichendorff-Lieder) 20. Im Herbst ('Der Wald Wird Falb, Die Bl?tter Fallen'), for Voice ; Piano