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Dame Moura Lympanys plays Falla, Liszt, Litolff & Mendelssohn
All these recordings, dating from 1964 to 1967, appear on general release for the first time, with the Liszt A...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000
BRUCH; BEETHOVEN; MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
Carlos Miguel Prieto | Minería Symphony Orchestra | Philippe Quint
Over a number of years, Philippe Quint has developed a close alliance with the Mexican Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012
Brahms Piano Quartet No 2. Mendelssohn Piano Quartet No 1
Mendelssohn’s preciosity and Brahms’s mature mastery sit happily together, though there are no prizes for guessing whose work wins the...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
Mendelssohn Orchestral Works
Even with a bonus of a strong, dramatic account of the Ruy Blas Overture this disc is not over-generous in...
Reviewed in issue 2/1993
MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Piano Four Hands and for Two Pianos’
Alessandra Ammara | Roberto Prosseda
Is there another single-disc recording of all five of the complete original pieces composed by Mendelssohn for piano duet and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
Mendelssohn/Sibelius Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | Sarah Chang
It is coming up to five years since Sarah Chang, then in her early teens, made her brilliant and moving...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998
Beethoven Septet, Op. 20. Mendelssohn Octet, Op. 20
This version of the Mendelssohn Octet challenges the supremacy of the full-price Academy of St Martin's disc (Philips), since the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 80; Schubert String Quintet
An unusual pairing but these two works, written at the end of their composers’ tragically short lives, form a striking...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2004
Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Libor Pesek | Maria Bachmann | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The generous and attractive coupling of the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos is surprisingly rare. Historic recordings by Menuhin, Szigeti, Milstein...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1998
Schubert/Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas
Christopher Hogwood | Jaap Schröder
In the first of Schubert's three violin sonatas of 1816, the violin and piano are deployed on equal terms and,...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
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