Instant Enjoyment Mendelssohn string symphonies and concertos - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... scintillating brilliance ...'

Here is all the proof needed for Mendelssohn as 'Wunderkind'; and the scurrying elfin strings show the child as already father to what was most admirable in the man. Contrapuntally he can stand any thematic tag on its head and turn musical somersaults while doing so; in a word, he is master of his craft almost before he enters his teens. Ready to chatter philosophy with Goethe, he should never have been allowed to cross the Channel and set eyes on Victorian England to be suffocated by its leather and prunella respectability. He could, after all, have visited Fingal's Cave without setting foot on shore...

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

WARNER CLASSICS

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

FORTEPIANO

VIOLIN MUSIC