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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words
For reasons best known to themselves, DG chose only to make a lucky dip into Barenboim's 1974 recording of the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1987
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The luminous performance of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony from Kurt Masur and the Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Proms this summer gave...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1988
Mendelssohn & Spohr: Chamber Works
Teldec's recording does not serve the players to very best advantage in the Octet, for the balance is a little...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Piano Trio No 1
André Previn | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Lynn Harrell
This glossy package represents Anne-Sophie Mutter’s tribute to Mendelssohn’s anniversary year, including a DVD – with Mutter performing as well...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2009
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies
London Festival Orchestra | Ross Pople
When I reviewed William Boughton's Nimbus set of the complete Mendelssohn string symphonies in March I had to point out...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies
Jerzy Maksymiuk | Polish Chamber Orchestra
This reissue of four of the earliest of the dozen early symphonies usefully complements the arrival of a group of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
Marriner's earlier recording of these two symphonies (Argo, 11/84—nla) offered fresh and resilient readings of both works, very well recorded,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1994
Mendelssohn & Schubert
The genius of the youthful Mendelssohn in composing the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of only...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
How appropriate that Harnoncourt, a conductor who through recordings has probably done more than anyone else to allow us to...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly’s debut as Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2016 was Mahler’s gigantic Eighth Symphony, completing the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
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