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Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony; Midsummer Night's DreamOverture
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis
Unlike my colleague IM I don't find these performances disappointing, in fact this is, for me, a delectable issue. Take,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1985
Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4; Hebrides Ov
Dimitry Sitkovetsky | Ulster Orchestra
Dimitry Sitkovetsky, adding another string to his violinist’s bow, has since 1996 been Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1; Mendelssohn Capriccio Brillant
Bryden Thomson | Israela Margalit | London Symphony Orchestra
Margalit was perhaps an unexpected choice as soloist in this mighty work, but she fully justifies Chandos's faith in her...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
Bruch Violin Concerto/Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Nigel Kennedy
Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989
Eileen Joyce plays Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn & Franck
By many people today Eileen Joyce is remembered only for playing Rach 2 on the soundtrack of the film Brief...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1998
Franck/Liszt/Mendelssohn Piano Works
As applause and an occasional cough confirm, these are live concert performances, recorded in 1988 when Bolet was already 74....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Lang Lang
Recorded in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall in February this year, Lang Lang’s performances of the Tchaikovsky and the Mendelssohn concertos bear...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2003
Bruno Walter conducts Berlioz and Mendelssohn
Bruno Walter | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
This successor to BIS’s disc of last December which included the Sixth Symphony contains another, the Seventh – the third...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1998
Bruch/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink | Itzhak Perlman
Ever since it was issued, just over ten years ago, the ealier Perlman record of these two concertos (also on...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1984
Brahms/Mendelssohn/Schumann Chamber Works
Doris Stevenson | Nathaniel Rosen
Winner of a gold medal at Moscow's 1978 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American cellist, Nathaniel Rosen, now teaches at the Manhattan...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1995
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