Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn - Works for Cello and Piano review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

The Guardian 80

The Mendelssohn siblings’ chamber music is vital and fierce on this release by cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Alasdair Beatson
(Pentatone)

The Mendelssohn siblings have suffered from their twin auras of worthiness: Felix’s as the oratorio composer whose works are murdered by a hundred well-meaning choral societies; Fanny’s as the token woman on dozens of concert programmes. Now, though, there is a growing discography helping to shake us into realising how vital and original these composers were. The chamber music, especially Felix’s, has done well recently – and the latest addition is this disc from cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Alasdair Beatson.