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Mendelssohn Songs and Duets, Vol 3
Eugene Asti | Mark Padmore | Sarah Connolly | Sophie Daneman | Stephan Loges
In such things as these, Mendelssohn (or perhaps one should say the Mendelssohns, as Fanny is also represented) are at...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2004
Mendelssohn Symphonies 3 & 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georg Solti
These are both exciting, high-powered performances very typical of Sir Georg. The dazzling qualities of the Chicago orchestra in achieving...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1986
Mendelssohn Elijah
I imagine that, for most Gramophone readers, Elijah should be sung in English, as at the first performance in Birmingham...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2011
Mendelssohn and Schubert Symphonies
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century here plays two symphonies of the nineteenth century ''on period instruments'', but which period...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1991
Mendelssohn Choral Works
This disc explores Mendelssohn's choral writing in some depth, in particular his endlessly varied use of texture, the accent here...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/1990
MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin and Piano. String Quintet No 2
Alexander Lonquich | Antje Weithaas | Camerata Bern
The opus number, like the booklet-note, is misleading: dating from two years before Mendelssohn’s final, anguished Quartet, Op 80, the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW/2011
Mendelssohn Piano Works, Vol. 2
As I remarked last November when Vol. 1 of this cycle appeared, the multiplicity of notes in Mendelssohn’s piano music...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1996
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
David Curtis | Huw Watkins | Orchestra of the Swan | Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Tamsin Waley-Cohen speaks in a booklet-note of the coloratura temperament of the solo violin line in Mendelssohn’s D minor Concerto,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
This recording makes an unusual migration from EMI's Eminence label to the slightly cheaper CfP series. Litton includes the linking...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Mendelssohn: choral works
These Psalm settings show Mendelssohn's devotion to Bach in that they are really cantatas on the Bach model. Unfortunately he...
Reviewed in issue 10/1985
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