MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Gardiner)

John Eliot Gardiner | Jurgita Adamonyte | London Symphony Orchestra | Lucy Crowe | Michael Spyres | Monteverdi Choir

The last instalment in John Eliot Gardiner’s bracing Mendelssohn cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra marks up a significant success....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2

Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Christiane Oelze | Ian Bostridge | North Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra | Simona Saturová

Mendelssohn hoped in vain that when the Lobgesang was performed in English, it would be known as the “Song of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2011

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

Escher String Quartet

The Escher Quartet continue their Mendelssohn cycle with two highly contrasting works. This young American group respond particularly vividly to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

Mendelssohn Symphonies

London Classical Players | Roger Norrington

The direct comparison here is between Abbado (DG) and Norrington, who couple the Italian and Scottish Symphonies; Mackerras (Virgin Classics)...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990

LISZT; MENDELSSOHN; REUBKE Organ Works

Here are the two Everests of the organist’s 19th century repertoire with a sonata, placed between them, by the composer...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 1 & 4

Escher String Quartet

Since their Zemlinsky recordings (Naxos, 10/13, 9/14), the Escher Quartet has acquired a new second violinist: Aaron Boyd. With Mendelssohn,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Wanderer Trio

There’s no question that the Trio Wanderer are a very classy ensemble. Their previous recordings of Ravel, Shostakovich, Schubert and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

John Eliot Gardiner | London Symphony Orchestra

Anyone following this Mendelssohn series from the LSO and John Eliot Gardiner will find much to enjoy here: in the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)

Bertrand Chamayou | Sol Gabetta

Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

MENDELSSOHN Octet in E flat major, Op 20

Eroica Quartet

Here’s a recording of Mendelssohn’s miraculous teenage Octet with a difference. Well, several differences, actually. The Eroica Quartet have gone...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2011