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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; F HENSEL Songs Without Words
Matthias Kirschnereit | Michael Endres
Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Manze)
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 Piano Trios
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 Elijah (Pappano)
By the time he relinquished his position as chief at Covent Garden earlier this year, Antonio Pappano had established himself...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
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
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 Sacred Choral Works
Latvian Radio Choir | Sigvards Klava
Of all the facets of Mendelssohn’s large and varied output, it would appear to be the choral music that has...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2025
MENDELSSOHN Complete Symphonies (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
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