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Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 5
Andrew Litton | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Bergen Symphony Orchestra
“Youthful juvenilia” was the painfully self-critical Mendelssohn’s put-down of his Reformation Symphony. “Of all my pieces this is the one...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2
Mendelssohn’s choral symphony, the Hymn of Praise, still deserves a wider currency than it presently enjoys. Cast as a hybrid...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2014
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
Jan Willem de Vriend | Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
Reviewing Jan Willem de Vriend’s 2011/12 recording of Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony I concluded that, ‘for a fresh, immediate statement that...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2
Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, his penultimate symphony, was preceded by the Italian (No 4) and succeeded by the Scottish (No...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos (Lisiecki)
Jan Lisiecki | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
This is the third account I’ve had of Mendelssohn’s concertos in as many months and, from the off, the young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019
Mendelssohn (The) Piano Trios
Gone, it would seem, are the days when Mendelssohn’s piano trios, like so much of his music, were routinely patronised...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2006
MENDELSSOHN Elias (Sawallisch)
A great Elijah should grab you even before the Overture – those sombre chords, that ringing proclamation. This recording, taken...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23
Mendelssohn Antigone
It is difficult now to see how Sophocles’ Antigone, the greatest drama on the theme of conscience confronting authority, could...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2010
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)
The Tippett Quartet first came to my attention playing the music of their namesake on Naxos, and they’ve since been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018
Mendelssohn Organ Works
Hans Fagius | William Whitehead
Mendelssohn’s six sonatas have been part of British organists’ repertorial bedrock for generations since their publication in 1845. Together with...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/2009
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