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MENDELSSOHN Die erste Walpurgisnacht
It’s already apparent from a very early stage of The Hebrides that Douglas Boyd has thought carefully about instrumental balance...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
Mendelssohn Walpurgisnacht
The idea of pagans outwitting their Christian oppressors inspired Mendelssohn to pen some of his most mischievous musical invention: Berlioz...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream. Erste Walpurgisnacht.
Harnoncourt's performance of the Midsummer Night's Dream music is not quite complete, since the ''Fairies' March'' and the ''Funeral March''...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Mendelssohn Complete String Quartets
Cycles of Mendelssohn’s string quartets are no longer a rarity. The Melos, Coull and Cherubini performances are well established and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2005
Mendelssohn/Grieg String Quartets
Quintessential Mendelssohn this, replete with feather-light textures, tightly-knit arguments, tender melodies and charm to spare: the mood is invariably carefree,...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Mendelssohn Piano Works – Chamayou
There was a time in the 19th century when Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words were regularly regarded as the third great...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2008
Mendelssohn Symphonies
There is much to be said in favour of both these new CDs of the Scottish Symphony. Dohnanyi in his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989
MENDELSSOHN; FANNY MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Takács Quartet)
Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021
F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)
The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets
This disc abounds in the kind of full-on playing and lively engagement with the music that we’ve come to expect...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013
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