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Mendelssohn Concertos
Andreas Staier | Concerto Köln | Rainer Kussmaul
These two boyhood works of Mendelssohn, dating from his early teens, make an excellent coupling, providing generous measure too, when...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998
Mendelssohn Complete works for Violin and Piano
Mendelssohn’s violin sonatas are still surprisingly unfamiliar. The fine work of 1838 was unaccountably unknown until Yehudi Menuhin published an...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
MENDELSSOHN Music for Piano and Orchestra
Anne Mette Staehr | David Porcelijn | Oleg Marshev | South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra
Oleg Marshev is to Danacord what Michael Ponti was to Vox, having given us such scintillating concerto obscurities as Winding’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014
Mendelssohn String Quartet No 1; String Quintet No 1
Prazák Quartet | Zemlinsky Quartet (members of)
Mendelssohn’s obsession with Beethoven is clear from the very outset of his First Quartet, with an opening that breathes the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2009
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Op. 12 & 13
Pedants who know that Mendelssohn’s Second Quartet was written before his First will love the presentation of this disc as...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012
MENDELSSOHN; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher | Charles Dutoit | Suisse Romande Orchestra
The competition is fierce for these most frequently recorded of all violin concertos, both individually and together. Most of us...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
Mendelssohn Quartets, Vol 1
Long gone are the days when the Mendelssohn quartets were neglected. The past few years, in particular, have seen plenty...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2008
Mendelssohn String Quartets Opp 13, 80 & 81
If any genre of Mendelssohn’s output immediately dismisses the slightly cloying image of boy wonder-turned-romantic hero, it is the string...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007
Mendelssohn Elijah
This is a tremendous performance on almost every count. Never before on disc has the work been treated with such...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1993
Mendelssohn Paulus
This is a good performance of a fine work (I’ve never understood the reasons for its relegation to the status...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
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