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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Opp 12 & 13
As this is the first in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, plain chronological order may well...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012
Mendelssohn Orchestral & Vocal Works
The Reformation Symphony surely sounds at its best when played straightforwardly and vigorously, and there is plenty of determination and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Symphony No 5
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Isabelle Faust | Pablo Heras-Casado
What kind of a violinist was Ferdinand David, for (and with) whom Mendelssohn composed his Violin Concerto? At a time when...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17
Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 4 and 5
Chambre Philharmonique | Emmanuel Krivine
There is much to be said for hearing Mendelssohn played on period instruments, as here, when clarity of texture and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
Andrés Orozco-Estrada | North Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra
The last version of Mendelssohn’s First that I listened to featured Thomas Fey and the Heidelberg Symphony (Hänssler), a rugged,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Emanuel Ax | Itzhak Perlman | Yo-Yo Ma
The line-up – appearing together on disc for the first time – is stellar, of course. All three are seasoned...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2010
Mendelssohn String Quartets
The Raphael Quartet are clearly keen to make out a case for Mendelssohn's string quartets, which are indeed still too...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989
MENDELSSOHN; SINDING Violin Concertos (Lea Birringer)
Hermann Bäumers | Hofer Symphoniker | Lea Birringer
Here’s something new, and I’m talking less about this being German violinist Lea Birringer’s debut concerto disc than the fact...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Kossenko)
(La) Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy | Alexis Kossenko | Les Ambassadeurs
Having created a work as perfect as the Italian Symphony, most composers would have sat happily back and thought ‘job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023
Mendelssohn String Symphonies
The Concerto Cologne gave delightful performances of three of Mendelssohn’s early string symphonies, Nos. 8-10, on Teldec (12/94); five more...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1996
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