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MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas Opp 45 & 58
A few months ago I reviewed two new discs of Mendelssohn’s cello music (12/12). Ultimately, neither Luca Fiorentini (Brilliant Classics)...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2013
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
The differences between these two productions strike home forcibly right from the off, as early as the First Symphony’s opening...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2014
MENDELSSOHN Organ Sonatas
Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas, Op 65, date from the last part of his truncated career (1844) and were commissioned by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas
Champs Hill has long been a master talent-spotter and although Alice Neary and Benjamin Frith are both insightful and elegant...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017
MENDELSSOHN; BARTÓK Violin Concertos
Augustin Hadelich | Miguel Harth-Bedoya | Norwegian Radio Orchestra
The musical logic behind this coupling isn’t difficult to fathom. Both Mendelssohn and Bartók composed two violin concertos, one in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015
MENDELSSOHN Elias
Of Mendelssohn’s works only the Scottish and Italian symphonies had a longer, more fraught gestation than Elijah. The composer wanted...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
MENDELSSOHN Elias
This is the third period-instrument Elijah (or Elias, as it must be here) on the market. No less than the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2016
MENDELSSOHN Orchestral Works (Biondi)
Unless I’m mistaken, aside from their 2018 account of Verdi’s Macbeth in its original 1847 version, Fabio Biondi and Europa...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios (Trio Metral)
This disc by the Paris Conservatoire-trained Métral siblings marks their debut on disc. The two Mendelssohn trios are an apt...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2019
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