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Before composing his famous "Violin Concerto in E minor" and two Concertos for piano opus 25 and 40, Mendelssohn had already tried the genre from early adolescence: Piano Concerto in A minor for Violin in D minor, for two pianos and a double concerto for violin and piano, written before he reached the age of fourteen years!
These pages fed by conventional science reveal astonishingly precocious artistic talent, worked with his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter, who had introduced him to Goethe in November 1821, sparking a benevolent esteem between the venerable German poet and the young musician, probably strongly encouraged by sponsorship.

Although less played and recorded the famous "E minor" his caddy in D minor (rediscovered and published by Yehudi Menuhin in 1952) has nevertheless experienced the honors of the disc thanks to the splendid readings Viktoria Mullova (with Neville Marriner Philips ) or Gustav Schmahl (with Helmut Koch, Berlin Classics).
With the accompaniment diligently qu'effilent virtuosos Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the libertarian and imaginative bow Gidon Kremer snorts here with a refreshing enthusiasm.

And the touchy dialogue with the Russian violinist Martha Argerich keyboard produces sparks in the double concerto: listen to the fevered trills of the conclusion of the Allegro or the frenzied final!
These spirited readings captured in the studios of Radio Zurich in May 1988 successfully the challenge of restoring -and how eloquently, the mixture of archaism, freshness and audacity that characterizes the eloquence of the Saxon composer, whose language will evolve to a more formal mastery accomplished without ever losing the spontaneity that still seduces so willingly today our ears.