Mendelssohn: Songs without words
Lívia Rév (piano)
CDA66221/2
It was the composer’s father, the banker Abraham Mendelssohn who, following his conversion to Christian Protestantism, added ‘Bartholdy’ to his surname. Although Felix continued to use the extended name, publishers and the public subsequently disregarded it, preferring the simpler, original, ‘Mendel’s son’.