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Works for Piano Trio
It is good to see a commercial firm sponsoring a recording by gifted young musicians. The Barbican Piano Trio were...
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
Mendelssohn-Hensel Oratorio
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel was still only 26 when writing this little oratorio in 1831, just two years after her marriage. We're...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989
Mendelssohn-Hensel Piano Works Vol 1
For the affluent Mendelssohns, a woman's place was in the home. So even though in early days Fanny's piano playing...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989
Chopin/Mendelssohn/Scriabin/Prokofiev Piano Works
Glenn Gould | Karel Ancerl | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Golschmann
While most of us turn gratefully to music we cherish and admire, Glenn Gould often performed and even recorded music...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1996
Devil's Dance - Gil Shaham
According to the prominent red caution notice provided, one approaches the opening track on this CD at one’s peril. But...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: /2000
PARRY Songs of Farewell (Quinney)
New College Choir, Oxford | Robert Quinney
Another stellar release to mark 100 years since the death of Hubert Parry – and cannily programmed, too, with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018
Phoenix Piano Trio: The Leipzig Circle
It’s interesting to see what can be achieved with a little bit of imaginative programming. It’s not too much of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2020
String Quartets
In some ways it doesn't help to be born too close in this time to a supreme genius in a...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1986
By Royal Command
Caroline Dowdle | Heritage Singers | John Bowen | Stephen Ridgley-Whitehouse | Susan Gritton
Mendelssohn is known to have visited Buckingham Palace at least four times for music-making with Victoria and Albert. The Queen's...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1991
Menuhin Early Concerto Recordings
Colonne Concerts Orchestra | George Enescu | Paris Conservatoire Orchestra | Yehudi Menuhin
Menuhin went on to re-record the Mendelssohn Concerto three more times in post-war years, but I don't think he ever...
Reviewed in issue 6/1991
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