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Beethoven; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
John Eliot Gardiner | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Viktoria Mullova
Interesting this, on a number of counts. Viktoria Mullova brings quite different qualities to bear on both works, chaste and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2003
Mendelssohn Piano Works For Four Hands
Andreas Groethuysen | Mikayel Hakhnazaryan | Oliver Wille | Yaara Tal
Why record, say, the piano duet version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, even in the composer’s own reduction? Why...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 13/2009
Mendelssohn Symphony No 2
The wonders of modern technology! I don’t know the Beethovensaal of the Stuttgart Liederhalle, but can it really have imparted...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
Mendelssohn Works for Cello and Piano
It was an excellent idea for Antonio Meneses, cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio since 1998, with his regular chamber...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2007
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
John Eliot Gardiner | London Symphony Orchestra | Maria João Pires
Two discs here, the first a Blu ray with visuals, the second a hybrid SACD. In terms of sound, the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
Mendelssohn Works for Cello & Piano
In her review of Lester's and Tomes's issue of Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano, JOC praised this duo...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Violin & Piano Concerto
Andrew Penny | Benjamin Frith | Marat Bisengaliev | Northern Sinfonia
The Mendelssohn family’s Sunday morning music parties, bringing one marvel after another from the wunderkind Felix, are now legendary. The...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1998
Mendelssohn Paulus, Op 36
The renewed interest in Mendelssohn’s oratorios continues apace with another recording of his Paulus. Herreweghe steers something of a middle...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996
Mendelssohn and Schumann: String Quartets
This is the first of the Cherubini Quartet's projected cycle of the complete string quartets of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990
Beethoven & Mendelssohn String Quintets
Gary Hoffman | Margaret Batjer | Salvatore Accardo | Sylvie Gazeau | Toby Hoffman
More proof—and it seems it's still needed—that the best place to go hunting for neglected masterworks is amongst the works...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991
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