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Mendelssohn Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Sawallisch
With new enthusiasm for Mendelssohn in the air in bracing performances of the symphonies and eager rediscoveries of the chamber...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1993
Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works
Alicia de Larrocha’s playing captures an earlier era‚ and her regal poise‚ warm full tone‚ and above all her luminous...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Mendelssohn: Symphonies for string orchestra
London Festival Orchestra | Ross Pople
The London Festival Orchestra are a compact group of strings directed from the first desk of cellos by Ross Pople,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1986
Mendelssohn String Quartets
I'm not sure that Op. 44 No. 1 in D or No. 3 in E flat count amongst the very...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993
Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Many hard things have been written by musicologists in recent years about Mendelssohn's two piano trios. Yonty Solomon, insert-note-writer as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1992
Mendelssohn Songs
Eugene Asti | Nathan Berg | Sophie Daneman
A musical soiree in the 1830s with songs and duets by Mendelssohn would have been a homely affair. There is...
Reviewed in issue 5/1998
Mendelssohn Motets
English record collectors who have grown accustomed to Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer sung by a solo treble voice (young Ernest...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1992
Mendelssohn: Symphonies
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein recorded these performances at public concerts and the first things to report are that I noticed no evidence of...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2
Günther Herbig | Ragna Schirmer | Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 WIDMANN ad absurdum
Irish Chamber Orchestra | Sergei Nakariakov
The teenage Mendelssohn laid down a gauntlet with his First Symphony (a decade earlier, Schubert had done the same with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016
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