Credits:

Bertrand Chamayou

Description:

Chamay, highly regarded as a leading authority on French music by composers such as Ravel and Saint-Sans, presents all 48 pieces of Mendelssohns masterpiece, *Songs Without Words*, which she has undertaken in earnest. Chamay, exploring how piano works without lyrics can express ones innermost feelingsa theme central to Mendelssohns masterpiecesplays each piece with tenderness, as if turning the pages of a diary chronicling his own life, and sings them out.This new recording emerges as a new standard in the discography of *Song Without Words*.