Howard Shelley - Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 2

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 second instalment of a six-volume set of Mendelssohn�s complete solo piano music�perhaps the least well-known part of the composer�s repertoire. The first volume was praised for Shelley�s �immaculate, lightly-pedalled brilliance, unfailing stylistic assurance, warmth and flexibility� (Gramophone).This second volume includes the Rondo capriccioso, a favourite virtuoso concert piece of the nineteenth century; the three-movement Fantasia in F sharp minor, which was originally described as a �Sonate ecossaise�, with its characteristic Scottish folk-song elements in the first movement, and two books of the Songs without Words.