Sigiswald Kuijken Conducts Schneider & Mendelssohn

The comparison of works written by two fundamentally different composers
within a very narrow time frame of perhaps two to three years frequently
proves to be a very interesting listening exercise. This comparison
generates even greater suspense when one of the two currently ranks as a
world-renowned and recognized genius while the oeuvre of the other
continues to lie largely unnoticed in the archives. In what in addition is
still a rare interpretative option on historical instruments, here with the
Cappella Coloniensis under Sigiswald Kuijken, we are now once again
offering you the opportunity to engage in such a musical comparison between
Felix Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schneider, who is practically forgotten
today. Here his Symphony No. 17 of 1822 is heard in confrontation with the
Violin Concerto in D minor composed by Mendelssohn during the same year and
the Symphony No. 1 in C minor composed by him two years later. Hiro
Kurosaki is our dazzling soloist.