Fischer is alive to the magical atmosphere of Felix Mendelssohn’s score and nowhere more keenly than at the start of the overture, where the four wind chords are extended beyond their usual length, acting as a foil to the really hushed pianissimo of the strings that follow. The playing throughout is of the highest quality…It’s well known that it takes considerably skill for professionals to play badly on purpose, so full marks to the clarinettist for the comic noises in the ‘Funeral March’. • BBC Mudic Magazine, August 2018
Works:
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Die Mainacht, Op. 9 No. 6 (Text: Ludwig Hölty)
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Ferne Op. 9 No. 2 (Tieck)
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Gondellied Op. 1 No. 6 (Geibel)
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Lieder (6), Op. 9
•Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
•Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21