This album is part of the NAXOS SELECTION edition, which features milestones of classical music in state-of-the-art, all-digital recordings.
The NAXOS SELECTION edition uses straightforward color coding on the cover graphics to help identify different genres.
Mendelssohn's original "Songs without Words" are masterfully structured and full of delicate expressiveness.
The "Songs without Words" are small, elegiac piano pieces that should be played expressively, as if sung by a vocalist.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy himself coined the title "Songs without Words" for these piano miniatures.
