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MENDELSSOHN Piano Works
This is a most appealing programme, with disc 1 devoted to the four sonatas (five if you include the Sonate...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
MENDELSSOHN; MÄNTYJÄRVI Psalms
Stefan Parkman | Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir
One result of Mendelssohn’s bicentenary in 2009 was a commission by Stuttgart’s International Bach Academy to the Finnish composer Jaakko...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013
Mendelssohn: Works for String Quartet
The new Accord set conveys a somewhat mixed impression. Everywhere the playing is of a very high standard, technically, and...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
Thomas Hampson: Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn
Claudio Vandelli | Thomas Hampson | Würth Philharmonic Orchestra
The question confronting any widely recorded singer of Thomas Hampson’s longevity and stature is if there’s really anything to add...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2025
Violins of Hope: Heggie, Schubert & Mendelssohn
Daniel Hope | Dawn Harms | Emil Miland | Kay Stern | Patricia Heller | Sasha Cooke | Sean Mori
The stars of this programme are the instruments themselves, all of which come from the Violins of Hope project. Originally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021
Mendelssohn String Quartets
Here's an excellent opportunity for the 'compare and contrast' game—and another indication that Mendelssohn's star is again on the ascendent....
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993
ARENSKY; MENDELSSOHN; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios (Trio Zeliha)
I can’t tell you much about the Trio Zeliha – the biography printed in the booklet (in French only) is...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021
Mendelssohn Overtures
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado has shown himself to be a sympathetic conductor of Mendelssohn's music since his earliest days in the recording...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Colin Carr | David Golub | Mark Kaplan
These are in many ways intelligent and sympathetic performances, at their strongest in making the most of the opening movements...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1990
Mendelssohn Symphonies 3 & 4
Philharmonia Orchestra | Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica | Sándor Végh | Tamás Vásáry
The new disc celebrates Tamas Vasary's debut on record as a symphonic conductor, and it seems to me a great...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
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