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Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies
Agnieszka Duczmal | Amadeus Chamber Orchestra
Adolescent symphonies ‘once summarily tossed aside as immature’ (as the booklet-notes put it) but which, during the last decade or...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
Mendelssohn Elijah
This recording followed immediately after a performance of the oratorio that I attended at the Barbican. I regret that the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1990
Mendelssohn String Quartets, Volume 2
A fairly palatable programme ('Volume 2' of an ongoing Mendelssohn quartet cycle), one that despatches some delectable music with a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies
Michael Hofstetter | Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
The late Hans Keller, shrewdest and most controversial commentator on music, used always to say that the composer who wrote...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2010
Mendelssohn Choral Works
Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Hans-Christoph Rademann
But how delightful! Here come Herr Mendelssohn and his choir, walking across the fields making directly for our neck of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2009
Mendelssohn String Quartets 3 & 5
The Roth Quartet, founded in 1981, have not previously made any commercial recordings and they show enterprise in venturing into...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 1
Vol 1 of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music (the first of a six-CD series) is launched with all of Howard...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013
Mendelssohn Gala
Frank-Michael Erben | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
To be worth the repeated viewing DVD allows, a conventional concert needs some special element, visual or otherwise, or some...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 2/2001
Mendelssohn Piano Works
All the pieces here are early, and one has reservations only about the Sonata, written when Mendelssohn was 17; the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1983
Mendelssohn (Der) Onkel aus Boston
‘Put a real opera libretto into my hands, and in a few moments it will be composed,’ wrote Mendelssohn to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2006
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