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Mendelssohn Works for Cello & Piano
Christophe Coin | Patrick Cohen
Christophe Coin's new excursion into the early romantic cello repertoire, has, I fear, been only partially successful. His Harmonia Mundi...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993
MacMillan From Ayrshire; Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Mozart Adagio K216
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | James MacMillan | Nicola Benedetti
This second offering from Nicola Benedetti, BBC Young Musician 2004, is centred, like her first disc (DG, 6/05), on a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006
Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Yehudi Menuhin
Furtwangler and Edwin Fischer formed a long artistic partnership, and their glorious recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto bears witness to...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Brahms/Mendelssohn Piano Quartets II
Mendelssohn’s B minor Piano Quartet may not be in the same league as the Octet that followed a few months...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1998
Bruch; Mendelssohn; Rossini Works for Clarinet and Orchestra
Alexander Besa | Jirí Belohlávek | Ludmila Peterková | Nicolas Baldeyrou | Prague Philharmonia
On this showing Ludmila Peterková is the Czech answer to Germany’s Sabine Meyer‚ a characterful clarinettist‚ brilliant technically‚ with a...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Mendelssohn Church Music
As (one would think) nobody in the record industry needs to be told, these are competitive times. Only a few...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2; Chopin Cello Sonata Op 65
Paolo Giacometti | Pieter Wispelwey
The Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, invariably an inspired artist, here couples two of the greatest cello sonatas from the early...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011
Brahms Symphony No 2; Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, 'Italian'
Leopold Stokowski | National Philharmonic Orchestra
These are two of the last recordings the 95yearold Stokowski made in London (the Bizet Symphony was to follow) in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2002
Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Jirí Belohlávek | Prague Philharmonia
A fine new coupling of the Scottish and Italian Symphonies from the Prague Philharmonia under Belohlávek, beautifully played and warmly...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2006
Riccardo Chailly: Music - A Journey for Life. BEETHOVEN. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
Lars Vogt | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Nikolaj Znaider | Riccardo Chailly
There’s inevitably a slightly melancholy tinge to this pair of DVDs featuring Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the orchestra...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
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