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Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works
Vol 3 (1949-51) may find this inimitable poet of the piano frail of finger but even in his seventies his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
In almost every respect this production is an ideal representation of Mendelssohn's music for Shakespeare's play, and it has a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Mendelssohn Concertos
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Frank Peter Zimmermann | Gerd Albrecht
It is an attractive coupling having the great E minor Violin Concerto in tandem with the youthful D minor, but...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1986
Beethoven Clarinet Trio; Mendelssohn Octet
The Wigmore Hall, one of London’s most venerable recital and chamber music venues, launches its own label with this issue....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2005
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
Alina Ibragimova | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Wladimir Jurowski
This performance of the E minor Concerto is splendid in many ways. The OAE, with its period instruments, delivers textures...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012
Mendelssohn: Works for Piano and Orchestra
Cyprien Katsaris | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
From Schiff on Decca we get just the two concertos. From Perahia there's the bonus of a splendid group of...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988
Mendelssohn Symphony No 2, 'Lobgesang'
Like other new brooms, Andrew Litton sweeps as though to disturb the dust of ages and present the old work...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream
André Previn | Christine Cairns | Eva Lind | Vienna Jeunesse Choir | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It seems remarkable that Andre Previn should choose to re-record Mendelssohn's incidental music and yet offer it relatively incomplete, when...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987
Mendelssohn; Schumann; Wolf String Quartets
This young French quartet founded in 2003 have already, to judge by this first recording, achieved an enviable level of...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2006
Mendelssohn Elijah
We have been in need of a satisfying version of this oratorio in English. The recent Hickox version (Chandos) failed...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992
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