Guess Who? - Olga Pashchenko

Pashchenko, Olga

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Pianist Olga Pashchenko creates musical narratives with selections from Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words. As children, the two immensely prodigious siblings enjoyed using text to inspire their piano pieces, although which of them was the actual inventor of the genre remains a mystery. It is possible that they either co-created this genre, or even that Fanny could have been the creator of the genre traditionally ascribed exclusively to Felix. This music, although wordless, is bursting with poetry and well-suited to the Conrad Graf piano from 1836 that Pashchenko chose for this recording. The Graf piano, a brand favoured by Felix, has a recitative-like quality that Pashchenko uses to perfectly articulate the poetry inherent in these Lieder ohne Worte or as Fanny called them, Lieder für das Pianoforte.

Works:

•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Lieder für das Pianoforte (4), Op. 6
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Lieder für das Pianoforte (4), Op. 8
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Notturno in G minor
•Mendelssohn, Fanny: Vier Lieder, Op. 2
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 6 in G minor 'Venetianisches Gondellied'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 2 in C minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 5 in A minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 53 No. 6 in A major
•Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 1 (6), Op. 19b
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major 'Sweet Remembrance'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 2 in A minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 3 in A major 'Hunting Song'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 4 in A major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 5 in F sharp minor
•Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 2 (6), Op. 30
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 1 in E flat major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 2 in B flat minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 3 in E major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 4 in B minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 5 in D major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 6 in F sharp minor 'Venezianisches Gondellied No. 2'
•Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 5 (6), Op. 62
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 1 in G major 'May Breezes'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 2 in B flat major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 3 in E minor 'Trauermarsch'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 4 in G major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 5 in A minor 'Venetianisches Gondellied No. 3'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 6 in A major 'Spring Song'
•Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 6 (6), Op. 67
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 1 in E flat major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 2 in F sharp minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 3 in B flat major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 4 in C major 'Spinning Song' or 'Bee's Wedding'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 5 in B minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 6 in E major 'Lullaby'
•Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 8 (6), Op. 102
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 1 in E minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 2 in D major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 3 in C major
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 4 in G minor
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 5 inA major 'Childrens Piece'
•Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 6 in C major

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04-03-2025

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