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Mendelssohn Lieder
Barbara Bonney | Geoffrey Parsons
It is always a pleasure to hear an artist when she or he is at the zenith of their powers....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993
Mendelssohn Songs without Words
As one German musicologist put it, Mendelssohn's Songs without Words quickly became ''a household possession, as widespread as the Grimm...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992
MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)
Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Brautigam is, if not the foremost, certainly the most prolific of today’s fortepiano specialists, with complete cycles of Mozart, Haydn...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas
Mendelssohn's F minor Violin Sonata bears the influence of Beethoven and Mozart, and this is perhaps what one would expect...
Reviewed in issue 8/1987
Mendelssohn Lieder
Axel Wagner | Wolfgang Holzmair
Let me begin with a straight question to Preiser. Do they seriously think that the way to interest the English-speaking...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1991
Mendelssohn Lieder
The sleeve-note tells us that the songs chosen by Eva Csapo for what is her record debut as a Lieder...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1986
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Saleem Abboud Ashkar
Riccardo Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and his soloist, Israeli pianist Saleem Ashkar, give us an ideal, new-minted view of Mendelssohn....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas Nos 1 and 2
How fast is a Mendelssohnian Andante? In the Song Without Words, Jan Vogler and Louis Lortie choose an easily flowing...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2003
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 MENDELSSOHN Double Concerto
Clemens Schuldt | Min-Jung Kym | Philharmonia Orchestra | Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay
There’s no denying the precocity of this Double Concerto, written when Mendelssohn was just 14. Yet for all its flashes...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018
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