Piano Forte / Grandi Compositori, Grandi Interpreti 63 / Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata in si bemolle maggiore op. 106, Preludio e Fuga in mi minore, The Fantasie o Capricci op. 16 / Rena Kyriakou / Optimes Audio CD 1994 Stereo

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Rena Kyriakou (25 February 1917 – August 1994) was a pianist and composer born in Herakleion, Crete, Greece

Kyriakou followed a dual career as pianist and composer. Her recorded legacy includes the complete piano music of Emmanuel Chabrier, whose works she played with idiomatic flair, and recitals of works by John Field, Joseph Haydn, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz. She recorded a major survey of the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn. Her sound, both in recordings and in concert, was characterised by a wide palette of tone colour, as might be expected of a Philipp pupil. Some of the characteristic tone colour of her recordings is due to her use of a Bösendorfer Imperial Concert grand piano for at least some of them, including her Mendelssohn recordings.

She died in August 1994 in Athens.

Tracklist:

Felix Mendelssohn
Sonata in B flat major op. 106
1.  Allegro vivace   6:45
2.  Scherzo — Allegro non troppo   3:32
3.  Andante quasi Allegretto   4:26
4.  Allegro moderato   5:20

5.  Felix Mendelssohn  6:43
     Prelude and Fugue in E minor

6.  Felix Mendelssohn   5:49
     Andante cantabile e Presto agitato

     Felix Mendelssohn
     Trois Fantasies ou Caprices op. 16
7.  Andante con moto   4:30
8.  Scherzo   2:37
9.  Andante   5:18

10.Felix Mendelssohn   7:43
     Fantasy on “The Last Rose of Summer” op. 15

• Piano - Rena Kyriakou