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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.
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