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Mendelssohn Piano Works
One of the main reasons for the success of this disc is that instead of doggedly ploughing his way through...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2009
MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Marie Macleod | Martin Sturfält
Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
Mendelssohn Concertos
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Frank Peter Zimmermann | Gerd Albrecht
When EG reviewed the LP issue he had reservations about both the playing and the recording, and I have to...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Song Without Words
Both of Mendelssohn’s splendidly assured cello sonatas and the Variations concertantes were composed for his brother Paul to play, and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
Thomas Zehetmair | Winterthur Musikkollegium Orchestra
A very distinctive coupling this, stylised in the extreme and with a keen-eared approach to dynamics that is quite unlike...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works
Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Saint-Eustache in Montreal is such a marvellous recording venue that the effect of the dancing strings at the opening of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1987
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music)
Trevor Harvey generally thought highly of Marriner's Philips CD (although in his original review he suggested the Overture was ''too...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1986
Schubert Mass No 5; Mendelssohn Psalm 42
With a mere handful of recordings of Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 currently available, it may seem strange that Philippe Herreweghe has...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2003
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
All these performances are given “on period instruments”, but no further specification is provided. The players are listed, but not...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1997
Mendelssohn & Bargiel Octets
(I) Solisti Italiani | Divertimenti
Older collectors will remember the pioneering chamber group I Virtuosi di Roma, which made a number of excellent recordings during...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
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