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F MENDELSSOHN; C SCHUMANN Piano Trios. String Quartet
Extraordinary as it sounds, I think this may be the first time that the string-ensemble chamber music of Clara Schumann...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2020
Coates conducts Wagner, Weber & Mendelssohn
Albert Coates has happily regained something of his lost reputation in recent years, and this issue should do more to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995
Christian Li: Discovering Mendelssohn
I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Charles Mackerras | Monica Huggett | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
In the Beethoven the shock of the old comes right at the start, long before the entry of Monica Huggett...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1994
Bruch Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn Symphony No 4
Albert Sammons | Gaspar Cassadó | Hallé Orchestra | Hamilton Harty | Leslie Heward | Malcolm Sargent
With the Hallé enjoying a higher profile than for many a moon under Mark Elder’s tenure, it’s good to reminded...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005
Dvorák/Schumann/Mendelssohn Lieder
Frederica von Stade | Marilyn Horne | Martin Katz
The duets are the most successful of the performances here, occasioning a regret that the programme had not been what...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Mendelssohn Die beiden Pädagogen
Here are delights. None of these pieces is often staged, and only alert record collectors will have caught up with...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998
SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas
Noé Inui | Robert Kulek | Simone Lamsma | Vassilis Varvaresos
Whether one can hear shades of Schumann’s nervous collapse within his D minor Violin Sonata is very much up for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016
Ignaz Friedmann plays Chopin, Liszt & Mendelssohn
If many modern pianists can be dismissed with damning brevity, Ignaz Friedman’s elegance and aplomb demand a book rather than...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1999
Guido Cantelli conducts Rossini, Mendelssohn & Beethoven
Guido Cantelli | Philharmonia Orchestra
Testament's latest tribute to Cantelli, who died in November 1956, aged 36, contains one familiar recording in the shape of...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
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