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Mendelssohn Octet; String Symphony No 10
Adam Summerhayes | London Concertante
As the greatest work ever composed by a 16-year-old, Mendelssohn’s Octet is always welcome on disc, and London Concertante here...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2008
Mendelssohn Piano Works, Vol. 4
He “liked it very much”, so wrote the 12-year-old Mendelssohn after introducing his recently completed G minor Sonata to the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1998
Felix/Fanny Mendelssohn Orchestral/Vocal Works
Gerd Albrecht | Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Hellen Kwon
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is, in a sense, his 'Unfinished'. He wrote it in the winter of 1832-3, and it was...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1994
Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner | Viktoria Mullova
The Classical Catalogue is particularly rich in fine recordings of the Mendelssohn E minor Violin Concerto (one thinks of Kyung-Wha...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1991
Mendelssohn Concertos for Two Pianos
Benjamin Frith | Hugh Tinney | Prionnsías O'Duinn | RTE Sinfonietta
Mendelssohn was 14 when he completed his first two-piano Concerto in E major, and still only 15 when he followed...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1997
Mendelssohn Piano Trios
It seems to be the year for Mendelssohn trios: the fine Florestan recording set the level, followed by the recent...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2006
Mendelssohn: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Claus Peter Flor | Sergei Edelman
Since Sergei Edelman is a newcomer to the English CD catalogue perhaps I should first introduce him as a Polish-born...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1989
Mendelssohn Symphony No 2
When I received the LPs of this version I had to disagree with Chailly's performance in one very important particular;...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Mendelssohn Paulus (St Paul)
The 12th and final volume of Frieder Bernius’s grandly conceived and worthily executed Mendelssohn Edition was the Elijah reviewed last...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2008
Mendelssohn String Quartets Nos 1 & 2.
Saturated in Beethoven, youthfully experimental – these are still two of the finest string quartets written in the nineteenth century....
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1998
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