Utwory na płycie:

• Mendelssohn: Capriccio In F Sharp Minor, Op. 5
• Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata In E, Op. 6 - 1. Allegretto Con Espressione
• Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata In E, Op. 6 - 2. Tempo Di Menuetto
• Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata In E, Op. 6 - 3. Adagio & Senza Tempo
• Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata In E, Op. 6 - 4. Molto Allegro & Vivace
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #1 In E Minor: Sanft & Mit Empfindung
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #2 In B Minor: Mit Heftiger Bewegung
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #3 In D: Kräftig & Feurig
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #4 In A: Schnell & Beweglich
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #5 In A: Fuga, 'Ernst & Mit Steigender Lebhaftigkeit'
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #6 In E Minor: Sehnsüchtig
• Mendelssohn: 7 Charakterstücke, Op. 7 - #7 In E: Leicht & Luftig
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #1 In E: Andante Con Moto
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #2 In A Minor: Andante Espressivo
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #3 In A: Molto Allegro & Vivace
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #4 In A: Moderato
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #5 In F Sharp Minor: Poco Agitato
• Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte I, Op. 19b - #6 In G Minor, 'Venetianisches Gondellied': Andante Sostenuto

Howard Shelley is acclaimed as the living master of early Romantic piano music. So much of this music was ignored throughout the twentieth century that there is still a sense of discovery at each new recording. Shelley here presents the first instalment of a six-volume set of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music perhaps the least well-known part of the composer’s repertoire.

Mendelssohn composed or began nearly two hundred works for piano. Nevertheless, he saw only about seventy through the press, released in seventeen opera from the Capriccio Op 5 (1825) to the sixth volume of the Lieder ohne Worte Op 67 (1845). Some twenty-five additional pieces appeared posthumously in eleven additional opera. The remainder, whether fully drafted or fragmentary, were left to his musical estate or have disappeared.

Volume 1 includes Opp 5, 6, and 7, the first three piano compositions Mendelssohn published between 1825 and 1827, as well as Op 19b, the first volume of his Lieder ohne Worte, released in 1832.