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MENDELSSOHN Complete works for cello and piano
Luca Fiorentini | Stefania Redaelli
Mendelssohn’s major works for cello and piano – the two sonatas and the Variations concertantes – are the ideal fit...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012
MENDELSSOHN Christus & Cantates Chorales
Many readers will know the recitative, trio and chorus that begins ‘When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem’. It...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2012
Mendelssohn Complete String Quartets, Vol 1
These fruits of Mendelssohn’s precocious maturity demand a fresh‚ enthusiastic response‚ and the Leipzig Quartet don’t disappoint. In passionate‚ intense...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (MDR Leipzig Radio Choir)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Philipp Ahmann
The 70-odd singers of the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and the city’s Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche provide an authoritative ‘home’ response to a...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
Mendelssohn String Symphonies
Mendelssohn's youthful string symphonies have almost become repertory items with the growth of so many small groups, some working with...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 2 (Bezuidenhout)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Kristian Bezuidenhout | Pablo Heras-Casado
Among a flurry of Mendelssohn piano concerto recordings in recent months, the direct competitor to this new one will be...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
Mendelssohn Lieder, Vol.2
Helmut Deutsch | Josef Protschka
Where Mendelssohn's songs were for so long neglected, they are now in danger of suffering from more exposure than is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Hilary Davan Wetton | Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Walter Weller
The contrasts of character are clearly established from the start, not only between these two new discs, but with Masur's...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1993
Mendelssohn Paulus
There is a strong case for having a version of Mendelssohn’s “other oratorio” on instruments of the period, even though...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009
Mendelssohn String Quartets (trans. Wind)
Amusing to relate that the booklet for this appealing if somewhat ephemeral coupling mistakenly attributes the origins of these 'quintets'...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
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