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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 5 & 6
With this, we reach the concluding disc of the Mendelssohn cycle by the Escher Quartet. As with previous instalments (8/15...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016
Mendelssohn Psalms Nos 42, 98, 114, 115
Bach-Collegium, Stuttgart | Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart | Helmuth Rilling
The sense of déjà vu (or, more appropriately, déjà entendu) that often crops up when listening to Mendelssohn’s smaller-scale choral...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2009
Prism IV: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach
Phrased in two (like Schiff) instead of four (Gould), the G minor Fugue from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022
MENDELSSOHN; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos
Carolin Widmann | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Perhaps we shouldn’t enquire too deeply into the reasons for the sudden blossoming of Schumann’s Violin Concerto as a repertoire...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW16
Mendelssohn Complete Organ Works, Vol 3
As Jennifer Bate’s Mendelssohn cycle reaches its mid-point, three fundamental questions arise about a series which is recording everything Mendelssohn...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2006
MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music 3
Mendelssohn and Howard Shelley are a musical marriage made in heaven. Stylish and delectably light-fingered, Shelley makes a flawless case...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015
Mendelssohn Piano Works
Herbert Blomstedt | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Here is a Mendelssohn recital with a difference, sandwiching two of his finest keyboard works between the perennially enchanting piano...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2001
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2
Putting this CD on ‘blind’, and not expecting a CD fill-up to this of all symphonies, the gently sustained opening...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015
Mendelssohn Choral Works
Die erste Walpurgisnacht, or ''The First Walpurgis Night'', is an odd but interesting work. Mendelssohn based it on a poem...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990
Mendelssohn piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
Formed in 1968 and 1987 repectively‚ the Trio di Milano (with a change of violinist in 1981) and the Gould...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
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