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Fanny Hensel - Fanny Hensel. Songs, vol. 1. Dorothea Craxton sop, Babette Dorn pf. Naxos 8570981, 2009 (1 CD: 58 minutes). - Fanny Hensel. Songs, vol. 2. Dorothea Craxton sop, Babette Dorn pf. Naxos 8572781, 2013 (1 CD: 62 minutes).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2014

Stephen Rodgers
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , December 2014 , pp. 368 - 371
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References

1 Letter to Madame Marie-Cathérine Kiéné (1 June 1835), now in the Library of Congress. Translation derived from Sirota, Victoria, ‘The Life and Works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’ (DMA diss., Boston University, 1981): 85 Google Scholar.

2 There is not space to reference all of this scholarship here, but a few recent and important contributions might be mentioned: on the historical front, Todd, R. Larry, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; on the editorial front, Hensel, Fanny, Tagebücher, ed. Hans-Günter Klein and Rudolf Elvers (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2002)Google Scholar; and on the analytical front, Malin, Yonatan, Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, especially Chapter 3.

3 See, for example, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lieder, Isabel Lippitz sop and Barbara Heller pf, CPO 999011; Invitation Fanny Mendelssohn: Lieder, Trio, Donna Brown sop and Françoise Tillard pf, Naïve 10012; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lieder, Lauralyn Kolb sop and Arlene Shrut pf, Centaur Records 2120; Keine von der Erden schönen/There be None of Beauty's Daughters: Lieder von Fanny Hensel, Adelheid Vogel sop, Suzanne Summerville mezzo-sop, Martin Petzold ten, Jochen Kupfer bar and Ulrich Urban pf, Querstand 9803; Fanny Mendelssohn: Lieder, Susan Gritton sop and Eugene Asti pf, Hyperion CDA67110; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Lied Edition, vols 1 and 2, Anne Grimm sop, Roswitha Müller mezzo-sop, Kobie van Rensburg ten, Maarten Konigsberger bar and Kelvin Grout pf, Troubadisc 1420 and 1421; and Fanny Mendelssohn: Lieder, Julianne Baird sop and Keith Weber pf, Newport Classic 85652.

4 Op. 1 was published in 1846 and op. 7 in 1847, before Hensel died. Op. 9 and Hensel's remaining song collection, op. 10, were published posthumously in 1850.

5 For a recording on the fast side of the tempo spectrum, listen to Susan Gritton and Eugene Asti; far on the other side are Lauralyn Kolb and Arlene Shrut.

6 Eugene Asti takes the former approach, Françoise Tillard the latter.

7 Available online at http://www.recmusic.org/lieder (accessed 28 August 2014).

8 Curiously, Craxton and Dorn emend another song that ends off-tonic: Verlust, originally published in Mendelssohn's op. 9 collection, which closes on a dominant. Dorn tacks on a D-major tonic, providing an awkward sense of closure to this song that gains such expressive force from its inconclusiveness. I discuss Verlust and its evasive tonality in my article ‘Fanny Hensel's Lied Aesthetic’, Journal of Musicological Research 30/3 (2011): pp. 179–83.

9 Todd, , The Other Mendelssohn, 108 Google Scholar.