Exploring the Shelves, #14: Mendelssohn finds his voice
Volume One of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music is on my music desk. Mendelssohn was an astonishingly precocious chap and wrote some of his finest music – the Octet for Strings, for example – when still a teenager. He was first and foremost a pianist, so it’s intriguing that his earliest masterpiece was not for […]