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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 Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 6 (Howard Shelley)
With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
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. SCHUMANN Piano Concertos
Antonio Méndez | Ingrid Fliter | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ingrid Fliter departs from her beloved Chopin for her latest disc on Linn. As on her Chopin concertos, she is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
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
MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)
Alina Ibragimova | Cédric Tiberghien
It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
Brahms Nänie; Mendelssohn (Die) erste Walpurgisnacht; Schumann (Der) Königssohn
Der Königssohn is the standout work here; I can’t find an earlier recording. Schumann composed it in the first flush...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 3 & 5
Any quartet that wins a Grammy for a disc of Ligeti quartets gets my attention, and the Boston-based Parker Quartet...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
MENDELSSOHN String Quintets (Bartholdy Quintett)
This album offers a stirring and refreshing journey through the lights and shades of Mendelssohn’s lyrical and ethereal quintets. The...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2021
Mendelssohn Elijah
Paul Daniel and Bryn Terfel ensure that this is one of the most dramatic performances of the oratorio on disc,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1997
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