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MENDELSSOHN Elijah
I’m not a fan of filmed concerts but I do wish this recording had been made for DVD, as the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
Mendelssohn Psalmen, Motetten, Hora Est
In these seven unaccompanied choral works Mendelssohn expresses his Christian faith unequivocally. Full of musical beauty and spiritual intensity they...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1999
Mendelssohn Works for Piano and Orchestra
Mendelssohn's two solo piano concertos deserve more frequent airing in the concert hall, as the late Rudolf Serkin's splendid performances...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1991
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
I had to give Jeffrey Tate's EMI performance of Grieg's Peer Gynt music a somewhat poor review last September, and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Mendelssohn: Complete Symphonies
Dohnanyi completed his recording of all five Mendelssohn symphonies between 1976 and 1978 ending with the Italian, which was one...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1989
Bruch; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | Miss Midori
No sooner have we had a new EMI version of the well-tried coupling of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004
Beethoven; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Joshua Bell | Roger Norrington | Salzburg Camerata
It is fascinating to speculate how far Joshua Bell’s readings of these two warhorse violin concertos have been affected by...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2002
Mendelssohn Middsummer Night's Dream
Jeune Choeur de Paris | John Nelson | Joyce Di Donato | Paris Ensemble Orchestral | Rebecca Evans
As long ago as 1976 EMI had the idea of recording Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream absolutely...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
Claus Peter Flor's glorious account of Mendelssohn's lovely incidental music takes a special place in the long list of available...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1988
Mendelssohn Cello Works
The best thing here is the Concerto, which is an arresting and inventive piece. The opening Allegro is conceived on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985
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