Exciting perceptual shifts await the listener, presented here on the new Genuin CD by the Duo Lontano: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, suspended in a reverie, and the youthful-bubbly String Octet, which the composer himself arranged for black and white keys and four hands. The colorful images become transformed into dramatic black-and-white pictures and the structures emerge differently and more contoured than in the original version – particularly in the way the sensitive and excellently matched pianists Babette Hierholzer and Jürgen Appell - the Duo Lontano – embrace the tender romanticism of the works. Highly fascinating insights into the composer’s workshop!

• Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
• Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20
• Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20 (Original Version for Piano 4 Hands)
• Mendelssohn: Sonata Movement in G minor
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 1 in E flat major
• Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 6 (6), Op. 67
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 2 in F sharp minor
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 3 in B flat major
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 4 in C major 'Spinning Song' or 'Bee's Wedding'
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 5 in B minor
• Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 6 in E major 'Lullaby'