The cellist Laura Buruiana and the pianist Ferenc Vici play the Mendelssohn's complete works for violoncello and piano. What all the works recorded here have in common is the high demands placed on both instrumentalists – as a pianist, Mendelssohn naturally did not regard them as solo works with piano accompaniment but duos with two equal partners. That involves special aspects in the interpretation and the ensemble playing which for Laura Buruiana, the cellist on this recording, are much more important than the virtuosic passages: “The biggest challenge is the sound quality and the ability to create that perfect mixture between the ways of vibrato, the sound colours, the different nuances.” This is not made any easier by the fact that in the four works dating from 1829 to 1845, all phases of Mendelssohn’s creative output – except for his early years – are represented, thus expressing all the stylistic facets of his musical activity.