Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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 Twin Souls of Music:
Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn

Recommended pieces and recordings:

Quotour Ebene: Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartets
 
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel:
Das Jahr (The Year), a musical biographical study based on the Hensel’s magnificent year in Italy. Sarah Rothenberg, pianist

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Lieder by Christina Hogman, soprano and Roland Pontinen, piano is simply gorgeous. 
The album also features works by  Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler)- gorgeous!

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Chamber Music, available on itunes

Be sure to listen to Fanny's Trio  Op. 11 in d minor (see you tube clip below)

 
Felix Mendelssohn
Two works of Felix's adolescence, the Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream and the magnificent and ebullient 
Octet for Strings give a sense of how truly extraordinary this child prodigy was. Both of thee works reveal the sunniest, most charming dimensions of his musical personality.


For a glimpse into the more mature and fervently passionate side of Felix, sample the stormy Piano Trio in d minor (YoYo Ma, Emmanuel Ax and Itzhak Perlman), the alternately introspective and brilliantly virtuousic Variations Seriuses,  and the ever favorite Violin Concerto in e minor

Two string quartets are particularly poignant: the String Quartet in A minor Op. 13, was inspired by and dedicated to  the memory of Beethoven. It is a work of astonishing depth, an utterly perfect homage that captures the essence of the style of late Beethoven while simultaneously heading in a new direction. Autumnal, elegiac, constructed with technical perfection. Felix's String Quartet No. 6 in f minor was one of his last pieces, written in the depths of grief after Fanny's death and filled with raw power.

Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Pilgrimages/ Retreats
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Morning Circle
      • Schedule and Links
      • Celtic Knots and Brigid's Cross
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
      • Celtic Legends with Justin Coutts
      • Brigid's Blessing Hand Instructions
      • Recipes
    • Claiming Our Light Retreat
    • Mystical Scotland
    • From Grief to Garden: Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
  • Heroines
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
    • The Art of Lamentation: Isis and Nepthys
  • Classes
    • Anchored in the Heart >
      • Week One: Drinking From the Well of Virtue
      • Week Two
      • Week Three
      • Week Four: Images and Visions
      • Week 6: Time and Seasons
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
      • East Coker
      • Dry Salvages
  • Poetry
  • Art
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