Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto no 3 in E minor_part_1.wmv

[tuberobotto]

I agree this is so much more thematically richer than the first 2 concertos and it sounds more mature. This was probably written after the 4th symphony? I don't know if Mendelssohn went thru periods of changes like Beethoven and others but the themes here seem to have more dramatic character than the previous ones. When I think of orchestration, I always think of 'Midsummer' and his symphonies but the work done here isn't bad. Who orchestrated it? Was it Henselt?

[feeleygoody]

@tuberobotto ... This work was completed by renowned Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, of Duke University. \

[gprengel]

I can't say how much I love this wonderfull concerto! I defintively prefer this one even to the concertos in g- and d-! I wonder why it is not more known by now. Thank you for your effort to make it known!

Gerd

[JHBernardo]

The pianist is Jennifer Eley. Unfortunately she was found dead in a swimming pool at her home in 2006. She was 44.

I will post the Piano concerto in A composed by Mendelssohn in 1822

[1980NewWave]

btw, who's the pianist?

[1980NewWave]

Finally! Someone has posted the 3rd concerto, I've been waiting to hear this, and it doesn't disappoint! Very beautifiul, narrowly edges out No. 2 in D-minor for me, but I still think No. 1 in G-minor is tops.

So, is the piano portion 100% Mendelssohn, it's only the orchestration that is partly a reconstruction?

Now if only someone would post Mendelssohn's childhood piano concerto (A-minor).....

[buffoon12345]

@1980NewWave

Yes, the two movements are reconstructed from paino scores. There is also a bit of a full score for the first movement. This is a good interpretation, but the one with Prosseda, Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig is a bit more animated and passionate. There is a third interpretation with the pianist Matthias Kirschnereit, but I haven't heard it.