Fingering: Andreas Groethuysen

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy knew that he could rely on his highly gifted sister Fanny as a partner in four-hand piano pieces. While he wrote only a few works of this sort, the two pieces presented here are superb examples of the genre. The Andante con variazioni, op. 83, presents a further development of his cycle of the same name for piano two-hands.

The Duet – Andante and Allegro assai vivace – was formerly known as the Allegro brillant, op. 92. This latte...