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Beethoven & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Yehudi Menuhin
Not having heard these performances for very many years I found it not too difficult to listen to them as...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1985
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto No 2 ADAMS Violin Concerto
Chad Hoopes | Kristjan Järvi | Mid-German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Bravo to the young American violinist Chad Hoopes for choosing such an unusual coupling of concertos for his debut CD....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
Mozart/Mendelssohn Piano Concertos
Helen Huang | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Helen Huang is a 16-year-old American pianist, born in Japan to Chinese parents. She has already appeared with many of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1998
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
There was a time, not so long ago, when it was hard to give a total recommendation to any CD...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990
Barbirolli conducts Delibes, Grainger, Greig and Mendelssohn
Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
Sponsored by the Barbirolli Society, this Memoir Classics issue brings together a collection of Barbirolli’s early post-war EMI recordings with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1999
Dvorák/Mendelssohn Piano Trios
The Beaux Arts, late 1980s-style, is recognizably the same creature as it was at the start of the decade, or...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1987
Grieg & Mendelssohn Piano Concertos
Cécile Ousset | London Symphony Orchestra | Neville Marriner
Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist, masculine in tonal command, who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1987
Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos
Charles Dutoit | Kyung Wha Chung | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
This is the first Compact Disc I have had with a playing time of over an hour, admittedly topping that...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1983
Mendelssohn/Haydn Concertos
Kuhmo Virtuosi | Peter Csaba | Ralf Gothóni
Haydn's instrumental concertos represent only a relatively small part of his output, and were mostly written when the composer was...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Mendelssohn Symphonies
Philharmonia Orchestra | Walter Weller
In this favourite coupling, Walter Weller conducts the Philharmonia in refreshingly spontaneous-sounding performances full of vitality. The sense of live...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1992
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