Saturday, March 14, 2009
Felixcitations co-prod: Mendelssohn's Third Piano Concerto
I was delighted to have a good phone chat with the Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd the other day about his reconstruction and completion - using the finale of the Violin Concerto - of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.3 in E minor. The full text is viewable over at my BBC Radio 3 Mendelssohn anniversary blog (which you and I know is really called Felixcitations). From there you have to click through to another page to read it because apparently it was too long for a blog. Meanwhile you can hear the inimitable Stephen Hough playing the better-known PC No.1 at the RFH tonight.
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Hmmm...I'm a bit sceptical about this sort of thing. The Mozart "Requiem" has held its place but was completed by a close contemporary. The Elgar 3rd Symphony always disappoints: each movement starts off well then gradually tails off in invention. The Mahler 10th seems to me hysterical and full of "quotes" from Mahler's own work and put to less effective use. Luckily, there are many who disagree!
What about the Schubert 10th?
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