A Celebration of Mendelssohn Song – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonMendelssohn's songs and vocal ensembles are grey areas in his output and are rarely programmed alongside those of his contemporaries. They have their admirers, however, among them pianist Eugene Asti, the driving force behind a day of Wigmore concerts that aimed at reappraisal and contextualisation. In the afternoon, Katherine Broderick, Daniela Lehner (replacing Anna Grevelius), Andrew Kennedy and Stephan Loges presented a chronological survey of Mendelssohn's development fr...

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