MENDELSSOHN String Quintets Nos 1 & 2

The Leipzig Quartet have already abundantly proved their Mendelssohn credentials with a cycle of the quartets. Now, joined by viola...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2013

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios

Hamlet Piano Trio

Another month, another Mendelssohn trios disc. This new one from the Hamlet Trio, a group just four years old, boasts...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2015

MENDELSSOHN String Quintets

Gunter Teuffel | Mandelring Quartet

This is the final volume in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete survey of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings, and as its...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Manze)

Andrew Manze | Anna Lucia Richter | Esther Dierkes | North German Radio Chorus | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Robin Tritschler | West German Radio Chorus

Andrew Manze completes his Mendelssohn cycle with the sprawling but oddly lovable cantata-symphony Lobgesang. This may be the triumph of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018

MENDELSSOHN Complete Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)

Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Daniel Behle | Karina Gauvin | Regula Mühlemann | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Mendelssohn’s five numbered symphonies make a motley collection: a piece of precocious juvenilia, three ‘named’ symphonies, only one of which...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto (Siranossian)

Anima Eterna Brugge | Astrig Siranossian | Balázs Bozzai | Bernadette Verhagen | Chouchane Siranossian | Davit Melkonyan | Jakob Lehmann | Katya Polin | Nicolas Mazzoleni

Chouchane Siranossian and Anima Eterna present not the familiar versions of these two evergreen masterpieces but instead go back to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas. Trio (de Hoog)

Marten Root | Mikayel Balyan | Viola de Hoog

The cello may technically be the star of the show in Mendelssohn’s two cello sonatas but they’re equally works that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2020

ENESCU; MENDELSSOHN String Octets

Lorenzo Gatto | Miguel da Silva | Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel Soloists

Enescu wasn’t sure that his massive String Octet of 1900 was a chamber work at all. He was happy for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartets

Daniela Cammarano | Francesco Fiore | Gabriele Pieranunzi | Roberto Prosseda | Shana Downes

Roberto Prosseda has already been rattling his way through Mendelssohn’s piano music for Italian Decca, and here he is joined...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4

Howard Shelley

As Howard Shelley reaches the fourth instalment of his solo Mendelssohn journey, familiar and unfamiliar once again rub shoulders. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016