Mendelssohn Piano Trio

Bach Prelude from Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (arr. Mendelssohn)
Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Mendelssohn)
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic
Marios Papadopoulos piano

It was Felix Mendelssohn who brought Bach back into currency in nineteenth-century Germany. In addition to reviving countless works by his Leipzig forebear, Mendelssohn made his own arrangements, including his expanding of the poised calligraphy of Bach’s Partitas for solo violin. This performance of two of Mendelssohn’s most effective transcriptions is capped by the composer’s own Piano Trio No. 1, a joyous conversation for violin, cello and piano in which the thunderously dramatic alternates with the gently elegiac.