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Brahms & Mendelssohn String Quartets
Even if no applause had been included, you could guess that these two quartets were recorded live—in fact at the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1990
Mendelssohn Paulus
The revival of interest in Mendelssohn’s two oratorios symbolized by their recordings shows no sign of coming to an end....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman's February 1969 recording of the Mendelssohn Concerto was originally issued on the flip-side of an equally engaging Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
Mendelssohn in Verbier
Recorded live at the 16th Verbier Festival in 2009, this is a real treat for ears and eyes. The Verbier...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011
Mendelssohn Elias
The Victorian paterfamilias would sternly point out that the spirit of Elijah must ever precede the spirit of Christ. “Take...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008
Mendelssohn - Piano Works
French pianist Marie-Josephe Jude, now in her thirties, studied with Aldo Ciccolini and briefly with Gyorgy Cziffra, and in this...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2001
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto, etc
English Chamber Orchestra | Jennifer Eley | Sayard Stone
What a delightful disc this is. Mendelssohn’s E minor Piano Concerto fragment (sympathetically reconstructed by R. Larry Todd and recorded...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Mendelssohn Symphony No 2
This budget label has the appearance of higher-priced product, and includes notes, texts and translations, but closer inspection of the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1999
Mendelssohn Elijah
This, the first ever recording of Mendelssohn’s oratorio, has always seemed to me one of the most convincing. Like the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2007
Mendelssohn String Quartets, Volume 1
Looking back at what I wrote in October about Vol. 2 of this worthy series—that it represents ''a fairly palatable...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
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