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MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio | Trio Dali
What a pleasure to have not one but two recordings of the Mendelssohn piano trios plunk on to my doormat....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Octet
Born in Hilversum of Russian-Jewish heritage, Liza Ferschtman is not a predictable player. Insisting that she would not record the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, complete
Though rarely heard in concert these days – more’s the pity – Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words have delighted generations of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 (Shani)
Lahav Shani | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
What a refreshing release this is: Mendelssohn played like Mendelssohn (and not heavyweight Mahler); a dynamic range that is not...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025
Mendelssohn Octet; Piano Sextet
(I) Solisti Filarmonici Italiani
The previous Mendelssohn Octet to land on my doormat was the rapturously ebullient reading from James Ehnes and the Seattle...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2011
Mendelssohn Motets
Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Marcus Creed
How apt that this disc should arrive amidst our 250th anniversary commemorations of Bach’s death. For no one did more...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: /2000
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos (Prosseda; Brautigam)
No sooner had one account of the Mendelssohn concertos arrived from Roberto Prosseda than another one turned up, this time...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2019
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5
Antonello Manacorda | Potsdam Chamber Academy
The Potsdamers’ disc of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies Nos 1 and 4 (10/16) left Peter Quantrill unexcited. My own reactions to its...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4
Antonello Manacorda | John Eliot Gardiner | London Symphony Orchestra | Potsdam Chamber Academy
As they did in concert, the London Symphony Orchestra offer Mendelssohn’s first and second thoughts for the third movement of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016
Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
John Eliot Gardiner | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It is quite a coup for John Eliot Gardiner to present the premiere recording of a major Mendelssohn work, for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1999
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