Mendelssohn Weekend - The Salon - The Sunday Salon

Louise Fryer explores Mendelssohn's chamber music, including his popular Octet, Op 20, written at the age of just 16. A work widely recognised as his first masterpiece, the recording is the winner of CD Review's Building a Library survey. The programme also includes the young Kungsbacka Trio, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, performing Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, one of his most successful chamber works. A darker note is struck by the composer's final String Quartet, often interpreted as a response to the death of his beloved sister Fanny, and which was written in the final months of his own life. Cello Sonata No 1 in B flat, Op 45 Steven Isserlis (cello) Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 The Kungsbacka Trio String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80 The Elias String Quartet Octet, Op 20 The winning disc from CD Review's Building a Library Survey The Chamber Society from Lincoln Centre, New York.