Felix MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)
Complete Works for Piano Solo
Ana-Marija Markovina (piano)
rec. March 2018–April 2021, Haus der Klaviere in Dülmen, Graskamp, Dülmen-Hiddingse, Germany
HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HC18043 [12 CDs: 821 mins]
‘Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God’. [Felix Mendelssohn]
As a keen Mendelssohn admirer, I welcome with open arms this twelve-CD set of his complete works for solo piano newly released on Hänssler Classic. The soloist on this set is Croatian pianist Ana-Marija Markovina who is a relatively new name to me. Markovina has recorded a substantial number of solo albums of piano works notably by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and also Hugo Wolf, Luise Adolpha Le Beau, and I have her albums of works by Anton Urspruch and Anton Bruckner. Certainly, ,the magnitude of this Mendelssohn project is a tall order to which Markovina is well equipped.
She is a graduate of music schools at Detmold, Weimar and Berlin and her piano teachers have included Vitaly Margulis and Anatol Ugorski, both described as adherents of the ‘Russian school’, and also Paul Badura-Skoda, a follower of the ‘Vienna school’. Most productive in the recording studio, Markovina clearly delights in reviving forgotten repertoire and recording complete sets. Standing out is her recording for Hänssler Classic of the complete solo piano works of C.P.E. Bach, a huge and successful ten-year project of twenty-six CDs, released in 2014 to mark the three hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth. MusicWeb International has the text of an interview that Marc Medwin held with pianist Ana-Marija Markovina in 2015 which includes her talking about that set.
Sometimes known as the ‘classical Romantic’, Mendelssohn was revered by many in his lifetime. I have to agree with the view of musicologist Edwin Evans who said, ‘Mendelssohn was born into the Romantic era, but his aristocratic fastidiousness made him averse to the Romantic excesses of his time, even when writing for the orchestra’. Mendelssohn was perfectly comfortable in the old world of classical form and refinement but infused it with a new lyricism. Since the mid-twentieth century, Mendelssohn’s music became considerably less well regarded and I’m not sure whether the tide has yet turned in his favour. Only a handful of compositions still keep Mendelssohn’s name in the spotlight. Masterworks such as, the Violin Concerto, the Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream including the celebrated Wedding March and the Octet for strings are most likely to be encountered on record or in concert; the Scottish and Italian symphonies and the Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) can also be heard. I must not forget to include Mendelssohn’s famous and joyous melody used for the Christmas carol ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’. A year prior to his death, Mendelssohn achieved great success with his oratorio Elijah, which is still performed today.
Precocious and multitalented, Mendelssohn was a gifted pianist and organist, making his public debut on the keyboard aged nine and later becoming a noted conductor. Courtesy of his father’s wealth, he even had a private orchestra available to him for chamber concerts, often at the family home. A Mendelssohn obituary in the Atlas newspaper contained the following text: ‘First and chiefest we esteem his pianoforte-playing, with its amazing elasticity of touch, rapidity, and power; next his scientific and vigorous organ playing… His triumphs on these instruments are fresh in public recollection.’ As a composer, he didn’t go in for outward show and inflated bravado with the dissemination of his piano pieces likely still suffer from this approach. During the various piano recitals, I have attended since the late 1970s programmes of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann and increasingly Debussy usually take centre stage. In truth I can’t remember the last time a solo piano work by Mendelsohn was played in a recital I attended. This comparative neglect is still rather curious as there is so much in these works to explore, enjoy and often enchant the listener.
The best-known of Mendelssohn’s piano works is his Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte), eight volumes each containing six lyrical, piano songs composed from 1829 onwards. I notice that volumes seven and eight were published posthumously. Mendelssohn’s piano songs and other solo piano works are sometimes disparagingly described as mere salon pieces but I have never looked down my nose at this body of work. They may have been played in fashionable salons yet that doesn’t preclude them from being worthy of praise, as many of them are miniature gems. Widely admired from the Songs Without Words volumes are the ‘Spring Song’, Op. 62/6; two Venetian Boat Songs (Venezianische Bootslieder), Op. 19/6 and Op. 30/6; Op. 38/2; Op. 62/1; Op. 67/4 Spinning Song or Bee’s Wedding (Spinnerlied - Bienenhochzeit) and Op.19/3 Hunter’s Song (Jägerlied) and acknowledged widely as a masterwork is the Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 (1841), a theme and set of seventeen variations viewed by Markovina as Mendelssohn’s ‘crowning achievement’. Other works often praised are the Fantasy - Scottish Sonata (Sonate écossaise), Op. 28 and the Rondò Capriccioso, Op. 14.
Markovina began this three-year Mendelssohn project in 2018, immersing herself in the subject and acquiring new perspectives on the composer. Described by Markovina as ‘works in progress’ and ‘trial runs’, the composer’s unfinished scores and projects and reasons for revisions were all of interest and part of her research. The works on this set span twenty-eight years from the short juvenilia pieces by the eleven-year-old Mendelssohn through to 1847, the year of his death in Leipzig aged only thirty-eight. Markovina seems to have left no stone unturned and includes a number of scores in fragmentary form; for example, one part of an incomplete Fugue in B flat minor that takes just eight seconds to play.
Of Mendelssohn’s seven hundred and fifty or so works, only a relatively small number have opus numbers and the majority were left unpublished up the 1960s. For this complete set of piano works Markovina employs the music directory system known as the Mendelssohn Work Index or in German the Mendelssohn Werkverzeichnis and shortened to MWV. The music catalogue is a result of the project led by Dr. Ralf Wehner of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities and has been described as ‘the first modern fully researched music catalogue of the works of Felix Mendelssohn.’ The catalogue places each work into one of twenty-six categories, with the category of solo piano works using the symbol ‘U’. Markovina has chosen to record all the works in chronological order in accordance with the MWV U number allocated to the individual work. This scheme is favoured by Markovina, as it allows her to follow Mendelssohn’s process and demonstrate his creative development as a composer right through his career. The only departure Markovina makes from the chronological order are the pairs of Preludes and Fugues as Mendelssohn wrote the fugues first. Worth pointing out are the volumes of Songs Without Words that were written at different times not en bloc, so each piano song is played here by its individual catalogue number order and not by volume number.
I have really enjoyed listening to this complete set of solo piano works. By no means do I know all the works in the set, yet there are many that I have encountered numerous times, mainly the most admired of the Songs Without Words and the Variations sérieuses. Some of the most satisfying rewards have been experiencing such impressive playing and the number of discoveries made. New to me and standing out as just two of the many precious gems, are the Capriccio in E minor, MWV U 139 from 1837 and the Andante cantabile e Presto agitato, MWV U 141 from 1838; both works have contrasting sections and are positioned side by side on CD 9.
In my experience, Mendelssohn’s piano works can often seem humdrum if played by unsympathetic hands or spoiled by excessive decoration. Those obstacles don’t apply here, as Markovina is a thoughtful pianist who seems to have an affinity with the music, and with so many rare works in the collection there is a sense of discovery too. In the absence of information, I have wondered whether there might be a world premiere recording or two here. Unwaveringly assured, Markovina often produces a sense of intimacy in her performances and elicits considerable tonal beauty from her Bösendorfer pianos. With no shortage of expression and vitality when required, there is sensitivity afforded to the slow sections and in some of the works her playing is beguiling. Comparing Markovina to my ‘ideal’ Mendelssohn interpretations I require additional polish and at times a touch more vulnerability, exacting qualities that even renowned Mendelssohn exponents with their chosen repertoire cannot always consistently realise.
My introduction to the Songs Without Words and Variations sérieuses was thanks to recordings from András Schiff (Decca), Daniel Barenboim (Deutsche Grammophon), Bertrand Chamayou (Naïve) and especially Murray Perahia (Sony/CBS Masterworks). My collection doesn’t contain the so-called ‘complete sets’ from Roberto Prosseda (Decca), Benjamin Frith (Naxos), Martin Jones (Nimbus) and Howard Shelley (Hyperion) and I have heard only selections from each. I always return to Perahia, who cherry-picked fifteen pieces from the Songs without Words for his album recorded in 1997-98 for Sony Classical. Perahia couples his chosen Mendelssohn piano songs with four Busoni transcriptions of J.S. Bach’s organ choral preludes and also four Liszt arrangements of Schubert songs. Perahia’s earlier 1984 Mendelssohn album on CBS Masterworks is comprised of the Piano Sonata, Op. 6 together with three other of the piano pieces the Prelude and Fugue, Op. 35/1; Variations sérieuses and Rondo Capriccioso. These two classic recordings demonstrate Perahia at his finest, playing with refinement and finds a special poetry in interpretations that sound as ideal as I can imagine. My only regret with Perahia is that he didn’t record more of the piano songs. In recent years another pianist I have relished hearing is Martin Stadtfeld with his album of Mendelssohn selections for Sony Classical. In addition, Bernd Glemser plays his Mendelssohn collection quite beautifully on Oehms Classics.
Markovina can be justly proud of this complete set, having had to work together with both her production and recording teams with the coronavirus restrictions and precautions. At her recording sessions, she elected to use either of the two Bösendorfer grand pianos at her disposal in the studio, an Imperial and a Konzertflügel. In the Haus der Klaviere in Dülmen, project recording engineer Kaling Hanke has achieved consistently satisfying sonics and both of Markovina’s Bösendorfer pianos emit an impressive sound.
First class booklet notes for this box set are provided by Hänssler. There is an informative essay written by Markovina which describes her process of research and her acknowledgments. Exceptionally valuable in the booklet are the remarks and observations provided on each work mainly from Markovina and a few she has adapted from Mendelsohn specialist and biographer Professor R. Larry Todd. The comments range from a couple of words, for example, ‘Thoughtful and reflective’ for the Klavierstück, MWV U 22 to more detailed comments for the Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 (MWV U 156). Housed in a clamshell box, the twelve CDs are annoyingly placed inside individual paper wallets which are sealed.
From the first work to the last I find this set of Mendelsohn’s complete solo piano works entirely compelling including the juvenilia and interesting group of short fragments. In what feels like a labour of love, Ana-Marija Markovina is in praiseworthy form throughout this valuable set, meeting the challenges with aplomb.
Michael Cookson
Contents
CD 1 [68:41]
01. Allegro in C Major, MWV U 1
02. Klavierstück in G Minor, MWV U 2
03. Andante in A Major, MWV U 3
04. Allegro molto B Minor, MWV U 4
05. Klavierstück in G Major, MWV U 5 (Fragment)
06. Andante in F Major, MWV U 6
07. Klaviersück in B Minor, MWV U 7
Piano Sonata A Minor, MWV U 8
08. I. Allegro molto,
09. II. Tempo di minuetto
10. III. Presto
11. Largo in D Minor, MWV U 9
12. Klavierstück in F Minor, MWV U 10
13. Recitativo in E Minor, MWV U 11
14. Klavierstück in E Minor, MWV U 12
15. Largo & Allegro in C Minor, MWV U 13
16. Andante in C Major, MWV U 14 (Fragment)
17. Adagio in D Major, MWV U 15
18. Presto in C Minor, MWV U 16 (Fragment)
19. Presto in C Minor, MWV U 17
20. Klavierstück in E Minor, MWV U 18
Piano Sonata in E Minor, MWV U 19
21. I. Introduzione. Adagio – Allegro
22. II. Andante
23. III. Allegro
24. Andante in B-Flat Minor, MWV U 20 (Fragment)
25. Piano Sonata in F Major, MWV U 21 (Fragment)
CD 2 [66:00]
01. Klavierstück in A Minor, MWV U 22
Piano Sonata in F Minor, MWV U 23
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Presto
05. Etude in F Major, MWV U 24 (Fragment)
06. Klavierstück in C Major, MWV U 25 (Fragment)
07. Etude in D Minor, MWV U 26
08. Etude in A Minor, MWV U 27
09. Allegro in A Minor, MWV U 28
10. Etude in C Major, MWV U 29
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 105, MWV U 30
11. I. Allegro
12. II. Adagio
13. III. Presto
14. Largo & Allegro di molto in C Major, MWV U 31
15. Fugue in D Minor, MWV U 32
16. Fugue in A Minor, MWV U 33 (Fragment)
17. Sonatine in E Major, MWV U 35
CD 3 [67:34]
01. Fugue in D Minor, MWV U 36
02. Fugue in B Minor, MWV U 37
03. Klavierstück in G Major, MWV U 38
04. Waltz in D Major, MWV U 39
05. Andante in E Major, MWV U 40
06. Fantasie in C Minor, MWV U 41
07. Sonata in B-Flat Minor, MWV U 42
08. Capriccio in E-Flat Minor, MWV U 43
09. Charakterstück in B Minor, Op. 7 No. 2, MWV U 44
CD 4 [66:36]
01. Prestissimo in F Minor, MWV U 45
02. Fugue in G Minor, MWV U 46
03. Allegro moderato in E-Flat Major, MWV U 47 (Fragment)
04. Allegro con moto in A Minor, MWV U 48 (Fragment)
05. Allegro vivace in F Minor, MWV U 49 (Fragment)
06. Capriccio in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 5, MWV U 50
07. Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, MWV U 51
08. Vivace in C Minor, MWV U 52
09. Andante in D Major, MWV U 53
Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 6, MWV U 54
10. I. Allegretto con espressione
11. II. Tempo di menuetto
12. III. Adagio e senza tempo
13. IV. Molto allegro e vivace
CD 5 [70:48]
01. Charakterstück in A Major, Op. 7 No. 4, MWV U 55
02. Charakterstück in E Minor Op. 7 No. 1, MWV U 56
03. Fugue in E-Flat Major, MWV U 57
04. Perpetuum mobile & Scherzo in C Major, Op. 119, MWV U 58
05. Charakterstück in D Major, Op. 7 No. 3, MWV U 59
06. Charakterstück in A Major, Op. 7 No. 5, MWV U 60
07. Charakterstück in E Minor, Op. 7 No. 6, MWV U 61
08. Charakterstück in E Major, Op. 7 No. 7, MWV U 62
09. Beginning & Ending for a Piano Piece in A Major, MWV U 63
Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 106, MWV U 64
10. I. Allegretto con espressione
11. II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
12. III. Andante quasi allegretto
13. IV. Allegro moderato
14. Prelude in E Minor, MWV U 157 “Notre temps”
15. Fugue in E Minor, MWV U 65 “Notre temps”
CD 6 [65:52]
01. Prelude in E Minor, Op. 35 No. 1a, MWV U 116
02. Fugue in E Minor Op. 35 No. 1b, MWV U 66
03. Rondo capriccisos in E Major, Op. 14, MWV U 67
04. Lied ohne Worte in E-Flat Major, MWV U 68
05. Scherzo in B Minor, MWV U 69
3 Fantaisies, Op. 16
06. No. 1, Nelken und Rosen in Menge, MWV U 70
07. No. 2, Presto, MWV U 71
08. No. 3, Am Bach, MWV U 72
09. Lied ohne Worte No. 4 in A Major, Op. 19b No. 4, MWV U 73
10. The Last Rose of Summer, Op. 15, MWV U 74
11. Andante con moto in A Major, MWV U 75
12. Andante in A Major, MWV U 76
13. Lied ohne Worte No. 8 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 30 No. 2, MWV U 77
14. Lied ohne Worte No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 19b No. 6, MWV U 78
15. Fugue in E Minor, MWV U 79 (Fragment)
16. Lied ohne Worte No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 19b No. 2, MWV U 80
17. Andante maestoso in F Major, MWV U 81
18. Lied ohne Worte in E-Flat Major, MWV U 82 (Fragment)
19. Lied ohne Worte No. 1 in E Major, Op. 19b No. 1, MWV U 86
CD 7 [70:40]
01. Andante & Allegro di molto, MWV U 87
02. Con moto in A Major, MWV U 88
03. Lied ohne Worte No. 3 in A Major, Op. 19b No. 3, MWV U 89
04. Lied ohne Worte No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 19b No. 5, MWV U 90
05. Präludium in B Minor, Op. 35 No. 3a, MWV U 131
06. Fugue in B Minor, Op. 35 No. 3b, MWV U 91
Fantasie in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28, MWV U 92 “Sonate écossaise”
07. I. Andante
08. II. Allegro con moto
09. III. Presto
2 Klavierstücke, WoO 19
10. No. 1 in B-Flat Major, MWV U 93
11. No. 2 in G Minor, MWV U 94
12. Capriccio in B-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 3, MWV U 95
13. Little Fugue in B Minor, MWV U 96
14. Lied ohne Worte No. 11 in D Major, Op. 30 No. 5, MWV U 97
15. Lied ohne Worte No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 30 No. 4, MWV U 98
16. Capriccio in A Minor, Op. 33 No. 1, MWV U 99
CD 8 [68:30]
01. Etude in F Major, Op. 104b No. 2, MWV U 100
02. Lied ohne Worte No. 38 in A Minor, Op. 85 No. 2, MWV U 101
03. Lied ohne Worte No. 33 in B-Flat Major, Op. 67 No. 3, MWV U 102
04. Lied ohne Worte No. 7 in E-Flat Major, Op. 30 No. 1, MWV U 103
05. Lied ohne Worte No. 9 in E Major, Op. 30 No. 3, MWV U 104
06. Prelude in D Major, Op. 35 No. 2a, MWV U 129
07. Fugue in D Major, Op. 35 No. 2b, MWV U 105
08. Prelude in F Minor, Op. 35 No. 5a, MWV U 126
09. Fugue in F Minor, Op. 35 No. 5, MWV U 106
10. Lied ohne Worte No. 15 in E Major, Op. 38 No. 3, MWV U 107
11. Prelude in A-Flat Major, Op. 35 No. 4a, MWV U 122
12. Fugue in A-Flat Major, Op. 35 No. 4b, MWV U 108
13. Lied ohne Worte No. 20 in E-Flat Major, Op. 53 No. 2, MWV U 109
14. Lied ohne Worte No. 12 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 6, MWV U 110
15. Lied ohne Worte No. 39 in E-Flat Major, Op. 85 No. 3, MWV U 111
16. Caprice in E Major, Op. 33 No. 2, MWV U 112
17. Scherzo à capriccio in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U 113
18. Lied ohne Worte No. 22 in F Major, Op. 53 No. 4, MWV U 114
19. Lied ohne Worte No. 14 in C Minor, Op. 38 No. 2, MWV U 115
CD 9 [70:11]
01. Etude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 104b No. 1, MWV U 117
02. Fugue in B-Flat Minor, MWV U 118 (Fragment)
03. Lied ohne Worte No. 18 in A-Flat Major, Op. 38 No. 6, MWV U 119
04. Lied ohne Worte No. 16 in A Major, Op. 38 No. 4, MWV U 120
05. Lied ohne Worte No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 No. 1, MWV U 121
06. Prelude in B Minor, Op. 104a No. 2, MWV U 123
07. Lied ohne Worte in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U 124
08. Etude in F Minor, MWV U1 25
09. Prelude in D Major, Op. 104a No. 3, MWV U 127
10. Prelude in B-Flat Major, Op. 35 No. 6a, MWV U 135
11. Fugue in B-Flat Major, Op. 35 No. 6b, MWV U 128
12. Allegro in B Minor, MWV U 130 (Fragment)
13. Prelude in B-Flat Major. Op. 104a No. 1, MWV U 132
14. Prelude in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U 133 (Fragment)
15. Albumblatt, Op. 117, MWV U 134
16. Gondollied, MWV U 136
17. Lied ohne Worte No. 17 in A Minor, Op. 38 No. 5, MWV U 137
18. Allegretto in A Major, MWV U 138
19. Andante in E major - Allegro in E minor, ‘Cappricio’ in E minor, Op. 118, MWV U 139
20. Andante cantabile e Presto agitato in B major / B minor, MWV U 141
21. Etude in A Minor, Op. 104b No. 3, MWV U 142
22. Lied ohne Worte No. 19 in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 No. 1, MWV U 143 (1)
23. Lied ohne Worte No. 17 in G Minor, Op. 53 No. 3, MWV U 144
CD 10 [71:11]
01. Lied ohne Worte No. 32 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67 No. 2, MWV U 145
02. Fugue in E-Flat Major, MWV U 146 (Fragment)
03. Piano Sonata in G Major, MWV U 147 (Fragment)
04. Andante sostenuto in E Major, MWV U 148 (Fragment)
05. Lied ohne Worte No. 37 in F Major, Op. 85 No. 1, MWV U 150
06. Lied ohne Worte No. 29 in A Minor, Op. 62 No. 5, MWV U 151 (Venetian Gondola Song)
07. Lied ohne Worte No. 46 in G Minor, Op. 102 No. 4, MWV U 152
08. Lied ohne Worte No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 53 No. 5, MWV U 153 “Volkslied”
09. Lied ohne Worte No. 24 in A Major, Op. 53 No. 6, MWV U 154
10. Lied ohne Worte No. 42 in B-Flat Major, Op. 85 No. 6, MWV U 155
Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U 156
11. Thema. Andante sostenutoo
12. Var. 1
13. Var. 2, Un poco piu animato
14. Var. 3, Piu animato
15. Var. 4
16. Var. 5 Agitato
17. Var. 6, A tempo
18. Var. 7
19. Var. 8, Allegro vivace
20. Var. 9
21. Var. 10, Moderato
22. Var. 11, Cantabile
23. Var. 12, Tempo del tema
24. Var. 13, Sempre assai leggiero
25. Var. 14, Adagio
26. Var. 15, Poco a poco piu agitato
27. Var. 16, Allegro vivace
28. Var. 17, Allegro vivace – Presto
Andante con variazioni in E-Flat Major, Op. 82, MWV U 158
29. Thema. Andante
30. Var. 1
31. Var. 2
32. Var. 3
33. Var. 4
34. Var. 5
Andante con variazioni in B-Flat Major, Op. 83
35. Thema
36. Var. 1
37. Var. 2
38. Var. 3
39. Var. 4
40. Var. 5
41. Var. 6
42. Allegretto in A Minor, MWV U 160
43. Lied ohne Worte No. 30 in A Major, Op. 62 No. 6, MWV U 161 “Frühlingslied”
44. Lied ohne Worte No. 43 in A Minor, Op. 102 No. 1, MWV U 162
45. Kanon in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U 163
46. Kinderstück in G Major, Op. 72 No. 3, MWV U 164
47. Andante in E-Flat Major, MWV U 165
48. Kinderstück in G Minor, Op. 72 No. 5, MWV U 166
49. Sostenuto in F Major, MWV U 167
CD 11 [69:00]
01. Kinderstück in F Major, Op. 72 No. 6, MWV U 168
02. Kinderstück in D Major, Op. 72 No. 4, MWV U 169
03. Kinderstück in E-Flat Major, Op. 72 No. 2, MWV U 170
04. Kinderstück in G Major, Op. 72 No. 1, MWV U 171
05. Lied ohne Worte No. 48 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 6, MWV U 172
06. Klavierstück in E Minor, MWV U 173
07. Allegro in F Major, MWV U 174 “Bärentanz”
08. Lied ohne Worte No. 28 in G Major, Op. 62 No. 4, MWV U 175
09. Lied ohne Worte in D Major, MWV U 176 (Fragment)
10. Lied ohne Worte in E Minor, Op. 62 No. 3, MWV U 177 “Trauermarsch”
11. Lied ohne Worte in D Major, MWV U 178
12. Andante con moto in E Minor, MWV U 179
13. Lied ohne Worte No. 31 in E-Flat Major, Op. 67 No. 1, MWV U 180
14. Lied ohne Worte No. 26 in B-Flat Major, Op. 62 No. 2, MWV U 181
15. Lied ohne Worte No. 34 in C Major, Op. 67 No. 4, MWV U 182 “Spinnerlied”
16. Presto in A Major, MWV U 183 (Fragment)
17. Lied ohne Worte No. 35 in B Minor, Op. 67 No. 5, MWV U 184
18. Lied ohne Worte No. 25 in G Major, Op. 62 No. 1, MWV U 185
19. Klavierstück in A Minor, MWV U 186
20. Reiterlied in D Minor, MWV U 187
21. Lied ohne Worte No. 36 in E Major, Op. 67 No. 6, MWV U 188
22. Lied ohne Worte in F Major, Op. 85 No. 1, MWV U 189
23. Lied ohne Worte No. 44 in D Major, Op. 85 No. 4, MWV U 190
24. Lied ohne Worte No. 41 in A Major, Op. 85 No. 5, MWV U 191
25. Lied ohne Worte No. 40 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2, MWV U 192 (1)
26. Lied ohne Worte No. 47 in A Major, Op. 102 No. 5, MWV U 194
27. Lied ohne Worte No. 45 in C Major Op. 102 No. 3, MWV U 195 “Kinderstück”
28. Wie die Zeit läuft, MWV U 196
29. Auf fröhliches Wiedersehen, MWV U 197
30. Fugue in A Minor, MWV U 199 (Fragment)
31. Lied ohne Worte No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 30 No. 4, MWV U 98 (First Version)
32. Lied ohne Worte No. 4 in A Major, Op. 19b No. 4, MWV U 73 (Early Version)
33. Lied ohne Worte No. 40 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2, MWV U 192 (2)
34. Lied ohne Worte No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 62 No. 3, MWV U 177
CD 12 [65:48]
Thema & Variations in D Major, MWV Z 119
01. Thema
02. Var. 1
03. Var. 2
04. Var. 3
05. Var. 4
06. Var. 5
07. Var. 6
Suite G Major, MWV Z 1, 105
08. Movement I
09. Movement II
10. Movement III
11. Movement IV
12. Little Fugato in G Major, MWV Z 1,53 23v-r
13. Little Invention in F Major, MWV Z 1, 92, 34r
14. Kanon, MWV Y 13
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13 (Excerpts Arr. for Piano)
15. I. Scherzo
16. VI. Nocturne
17. IX. Hochzeitsmarsch
18. Perpetuum mobile, Op. 119, MWV U 58
19. Lied ohne Worte No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 19 No. 2, MWV U 80 (Early Version)
20. Andante in G Major, MWV U 19
21. Präludium in B Minor, MWV U 123
22. Lied ohne Worte No. 19 in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 No. 1, MWV U 143 (2)
23. Lied ohne Worte No. 42, Op. 85 No. 6 (other version) MWV U 155
Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, MWV U 156 (sketches, versions and rejected variations)
24. Thema. Andante sostenuto
25. Var. 1
26. Var. 10
27. Var. 11
28. Var. 12
29. Var. 13
30. Var. 14
31. Var. 16
32. Var. 17
33. Var. 18
Andante con variazioni in E-Flat Major, Op. 82, MWV U 158 (sketches and versions)
(Some discarded variations and designs)
34. Thema. Andante
35. Var. 1
36. Var. 1 [Interim Version]
37. Var. 2
38. Var. 3
39. Var. 4
40. Var. 5 [Ending Version A]
41. Var. 5 [Ending Version B]
42. Lied ohne Worte No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 62 No. 3, MWV U 177 “Funeral March”
43. Lied ohne Worte No. 40 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2, MWV U 192
