Search - Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz :: Mendelssohn: Double Concerto, Piano Concerto

Three years before the Midsummer Night s Dream Overture, Felix Mendelssohn wrote an amazing concerto for fortepiano and violin, built on the Classical model but brimming with new, even iconoclastic ideas. Astonishingly, when it had its first performance in May 1823, the composer was just fourteen. He had already written around one hundred works, including a piano concerto premiered a year earlier. It was not until the late 20th century that either work appeared in a critical edition, and it is those rediscovered scores upon which this recording is based. Kristian Bezuidenhout is joined by the Freiburger Barockorchester and their violinist/conductor Gottfried von der Goltz.