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Songs, Op 1 (No 1, Schwanenlied)
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: James Baillieu (Piano)
Recording date: 28 February 2014
Date of broadcast: 18 July 2014
This song, published in 1846, is a delicate, introspective meditation on late-found love. Fanny died less than a year after this piece - her Opus 1 - first went on sale in Berlin.
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: James Baillieu (Piano)
Recording date: 28 February 2014
Date of broadcast: 18 July 2014
