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Chailly performs Mendelssohn
One of the most magical moments in Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise comes at the end of the sixth part of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2006
MENDELSSOHN Complete Piano Music, Vol 5 (Howard Shelley)
Howard Shelley has been on a winning streak with his Mendelssohn odyssey and the penultimate volume lives up to previous...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021
Mendelssohn Complete Organ Works, Vol 5
With this fifth disc in the series, Jennifer Bate completes her comprehensive survey of Mendelssohn's organ music. As with the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2007
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 17 – Mendelssohn
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Lawrence Foster | Stephen Hough
Looking at the list of contenders, you might think Stephen Hough faced impossibly stiff competition in the Mendelssohn concertos. But...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1997
MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Marcy Rosen)
The cellist Marcy Rosen was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and remained with the ensemble for more...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
Mendelssohn Songs and Duets, Vol 4
With its promised sequel, this fourth volume is an important extension of the Mendelssohn Song Edition, which may have been...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2009
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Manze)
Andrew Manze | Hanover NDR Philharmonic Orchestra
How is the weather on the Italian leg of the Grand Tour? For John Eliot Gardiner the Mediterranean sun streams...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2018
MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)
Doric String Quartet | Timothy Ridout
Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
Mendelssohn (The) Complete String Quartets
(The) Eroica Quartet | Bartholdy Quartet | Pacifica Quartet
At a time when new issues of Mendelssohn quartets seem to arrive every month it’s interesting to be reminded of...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2005
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner
Mendelssohn performed in Birmingham several times during the 1830s and ’40s – Elijah was composed for the Birmingham Festival –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
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