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Mendelssohn Oedipus-Incidental Music
The year 1845 was a fairly busy one for Mendelssohn. Covent Garden had put on Sophocles's Antigone using the composer's...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Cello and Piano
R Larry Todd will be familiar to many readers as a Mendelssohn scholar. Clearly he’s an able pianist too, which...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015
Mendelssohn; Mozart; Schubert String Quartets
Two years ago the Elias bounded into my musical consciousness with a sensational disc of Mendelssohn quartets. Here was an...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2009
Mendelssohn String Quartets Vol. 2
Mendelssohn’s quartets exhibit a remarkable blend of fantasy, emotion and intellectual rigour, allied to an insider’s expertise in writing for...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Op 44/1&2; Op 80
The Mandelring Quartet’s first release in their complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings included the Opp 12 and...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
Mendelssohn String Symphonies, Volume 3
Nicholas Ward | Northern Chamber Orchestra
With this third volume (the first two were reviewed in 12/96), Nicholas Ward and the Northern Chamber Orchestra complete their...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997
Mendelssohn String Symphonies, etc
Goldberg Ensemble | Malcolm Layfield
For all their richness of melodic invention and contrapuntal expertise, the sixth and seventh of Mendelssohn's string symphonies remain transitional...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 3/1992
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
This new issue was clearly made in conjunction with a concert performance, since there is a photograph on the back...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Mendelssohn Piano concertos 1 & 2
Ida Cernecká | Oliver Dohnányi | Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
''One of the finest Slovak performing artists'' is how the booklet describes Ida Cernecka, a pupil of Rudolf Macudzinski at...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1990
Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Chamber Works
A curious coupling, you might think, but it's a thought-provoking one: the players almost seem to be challenging the easy...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989
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