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Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Berne Symphony Orchestra | Peter Maag
Even more than I expected, this budget-price CD brings out what a supreme Mendelssohnian Peter Maag is. Many years ago...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1986
F & F MENDELSSOHN Arias. Lieder. Overtures (Chen Reiss)
Arabella Steinbacher | Chen Reiss | Daniel Grossmann | Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich
The chic waltz song ‘Italien’ became something of a popular hit after Mendelssohn published it in his Op 8 collection....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2022
Beethoven; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Nikolaj Znaider | Zubin Mehta
Nikolaj Znaider’s high-calibre artistry is tellingly exemplified by the second subject of Mendelssohn’s first movement (3’09” into track 1) where...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2005
Mendelssohn String Quartets
From Szymanowski to Mendelssohn is no small step. Coming to this after the Carmina Quartet's Szymanowski disc (see review on...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992
Mendelssohn String Quartets
This Acanta set was recorded in the early 1970s, and has an attractive, mellow quality of sound which however doesn't...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 13 BERG Lyric Suite
The Tetzlaff Quartet is unusual in consisting of four busy soloists who get together only intermittently. The upside is that...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 Op 25
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Martin Stadtfeld | Neville Marriner
Sony gives Martin Stadtfeld more prominent billing than the composer, whom they somewhat perversely refer to by his baptismal name...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
MENDELSSOHN; BRITTEN Violin Concertos (Bohren)
Andrew Litton | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Sebastian Bohren
Knowing Sebastian Bohren’s playing from his gripping recording of Hartmann’s Concerto funebre (6/17) and as leader of the superb Stradivari...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
MENDELSSOHN Compete String Quartets, Vol 1 (Quatuor van Kuijk)
This is a golden age for Mendelssohn string quartets, once treated with faint condescension but now recognised as arguably the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW22
F&F MENDELSSOHN Piano Sextet. Piano Quartet. Piano Trio
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Another month, another Fanny-and-Felix pairing. Not that I’m complaining when the results are as exhilarating as this. Over the past...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022
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