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Emotion Unbound (2003)

Emotion Unbound features music by three of the greatest composers of the Romantic generation: Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann. In the works of these masters, Beethoven’s legacy of artistic individualism and personal expression continues in a heightened sense of humanity and subjectivity in the music itself. The result of this subjectivity is clearly heard in Schubert’s Violin Sonatina, Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte, and Schumann’s Piano Quartet: a spectrum of new emotional extremes, from the highest ecstasy to the most bittersweet melancholy, and often into the deepest despair.

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Selections

Violin Sonatina in a minor, D. 385 (op. posth. 137, no. 2) | Franz Schubert (24:06)

• Gilbert Kalish, Piano
• Philip Setzer, Violin

Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), op. 67, no. 1 | Felix Mendelssohn (2:04)

• Wu Han, Piano

Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), op. 67, no. 2 | Felix Mendelssohn (2:19)

• Wu Han, Piano

Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), op. 62, no. 6 | Felix Mendelssohn (2:18)

• Wu Han, Piano

Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), op. 67, no. 4 | Felix Mendelssohn (2:20)

• Wu Han, Piano

Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 47 | Robert Schumann (27:56)

• David Finckel, Cello
• Jorja Fleezanis, Violin
• Gilbert Kalish, Piano
• Geraldine Walther, Viola

Artists

• David Finckel, Cello
• Jorja Fleezanis, Violin
• Gilbert Kalish, Piano
• Philip Setzer, Violin
• Geraldine Walther, Viola
• Wu Han, Piano

Music@Menlo LIVE’s Innovation/Evolution series commemorates the festival’s inaugural season, a historical survey of the chamber music literature from the Baroque period to the music of our time.

Total Time: 1:01:27
Discs: 1
Price: $15.00
Year Recorded: 2003