New! Phaedra Classics cat.292019 

Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, piano, winner of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels 2007: His first solo CD.

 
A tribute to FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)

- Nine numbers from .Songs without Words" ("Lieder ohne Worte")

- Rondo Capriccioso, opus 14 (1824)

- Variations Séeuses, opus 54 (1841)

- Concerto in A minor for Piano and String Orchestra, S.3 (1822)

Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, piano

Camerata Con Cor(d)e String Orchestra

Conductor: Alain Roelant

For sixteen years no Flemish musician managed a prize in the renowned Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. But in 2007 the pianist Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort succeeded in repeating the feat of  his teacher Jan Michiels in 1991.

On this Phaedra production Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort pays homage to Mendelssohn, whose 200th birthday we celebrate in 2009. Mendelssohn is one of Liebrecht's favorite composers. No wonder he plays his music in a  manner it would be difficult to surpass. Besides a number of magnificent  "Lieder ohne Worte" he plays the "Variations sérieuses", arguably  Menselssohn's greatest solo work for the piano, the marvelous "Rondo  Capriccioso" and the a minor piano concerto. This most poetic but at the  same time most virtuoso work, half an hour long, has remained almost unknown, and the catalogue reveals but few recordings of it. It was written by the then thirteen-year-old Mendelssohn for his private orchestra.

This brand-new recording intends to be a worthy contribution to the Mendelssohn year 2009.