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Bach; Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works
One of the special delights of the Seventh Chetham’s International Summer School was this recital by Vanessa Latarche. Her carefully...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008
Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Arthur Rubinstein | Gregor Piatigorsky | Jascha Heifetz
The Mendelssohn first appeared in this country in harness with the Ravel Trio, and the Tchaikovsky was listed in the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989
F & F MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excs)
‘Humans like this music. It entertains them’, Iván Fischer writes, with quizzical humour, in a booklet note for his recording...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Now on CD it has become the norm to have both of these favourite Mendelssohn symphonies on a single disc,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1987
Mendelssohn; Schubert Piano Trios
The Smetana Trio needs no introduction – it’s one of those ensembles whose historical reputation is such that it changes...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2010
Haydn Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 4; Mendelssohn Octet
Often when listening to Mendelssohn’s Octet, I find myself searching for moments that might betray the youthfulness of its creator:...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 6/2010
Mendelssohn Piano Trios 1 & 2
In Stefan Mendl the Vienna Piano Trio has an exceptionally brilliant pianist. But despite his delectably light and frothy, well-ventilated...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1998
Mendelssohn Songs without Words - excs
By my reckoning this is the only CD collection of Songs without Words played on a period fortepiano. And very...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1999
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Brenda Lucas | John Ogdon | Neville Marriner
What a welcome reissue—both as a reminder of the precociously gifted teenage Mendelssohn and the spirited John Ogdon some of...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2
As Peter Ward Jones points out in his excellent note to this record, Mendelssohn subtitled his Lobgesang not Symphony No....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1992
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