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Mendelssohn Piano Trios Nos 1 and 2, Opp 49 & 66
Daniel Müller-Schott | Jonathan Gilad | Julia Fischer
Chamber music with star players doesn’t always work: lack of rehearsal time or oversized egos can often lead to performances...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2006
Franck Symphony/Mendelssohn Symphony 5
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel
This CD preserves a phenomenon: a “Living Legend” (to borrow from BMG’s current Maazel puffery) in the making. Appreciative insert-notes...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996
Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Orchestra
These performances turn out to be the exact opposite anyone might expect from Klemperer. With his reputation for deliberate tempos...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Mendelssohn/Brahms Piano Trios
Kyung Wha Chung | Myung-Wha Chung | Myung-Whun Chung
Hard on the heels of (though recorded eight years earlier than) their fine Beethoven trios (EMI, 1/95) comes the Chungs'...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995
Bruch Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E minor
Janine Jansen | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly
Though Janine Jansen here offers the standard coupling of violin concertos, Bruch No 1 and Mendelssohn, she adds an important...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2007
Viotti/Mendelssohn Double Concertos
Ola Rudner | Philippe Entremont | Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Mendelssohn's Double Concerto has many of the hallmarks of his precocious youth, including the gift for making his well-learnt counterpoint...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1990
Brahms Piano Quartet Op 26; Mendelssohn String Quintet Op 87
Over the past few years an impressive repertoire of recorded performances from the Heimbach Festival have appeared. The concerts take...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2004
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bach Choir | Francesco d' Avalos | Jean Rigby | Judith Howarth | Philharmonia Orchestra
This version of A Midsummer Night's Dream has the advantage of being absolutely complete. It's true that one or two...
Reviewed in issue 7/1994
Mendelssohn Piano Concertos 1 & 2
András Schiff | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit
As sound per se, Schiff's 1983 LP recording of these two concertos is surely the best currently available by far....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1986
Brahms/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Johanna Martzy | Paul Kletzki | Philharmonia Orchestra
In collecting circles the name of Johanna Martzy is revered, and her records fetch enormous prices on the second-hand market....
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
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