Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 1 / String Symphonies Nos. 8 and 13

This is the first volume in what will become the definitive Mendelssohn cycle of the new century. Maestro Fey, a long-time advocate of Mendelssohn's orchestral music, has assembled several rare alternate versions of his string symphonies, which he himself later orchestrated. Born in 1960, Fey was a student of Nikolaus Harnoncourt from 1988 to 1991 at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and also studied under Leonard Bernstein.