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GRIEG; HOUGH; MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas
Steven Isserlis is a past master when it comes to matching his pianists to repertoire: Robert Levin in Beethoven, Dénes...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Michael Barenboim)
Michael Barenboim | Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
Andrew Manze | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Two litmus tests in any performance of Mendelssohn’s glorious Scottish Symphony are the Adagio third movement and the final peroration....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 2 & 4. 4 Pieces. Frage
Arod Quartet | Marianne Crebassa
'He had the smallest modicum possible of the phlegmatic, and the maximum of the opposite quality.’ Goethe’s characterisation of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017
MENDELSSOHN Pianos Trios Nos 1 & 2
Is it just me, or are piano trios getting younger? The Hamlet Trio, whose Mendelssohn I reviewed a few months...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
Mendelssohn Lieder
Graham Johnson | Margaret Price
It is my practice when listening to some recitals to place a blob by any piece I want to refer...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1994
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Tonkünstler Orchestra
When reviewing Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s coupling of Mendelssohn’s First and Third Symphonies (8/14), I concluded by lamenting a certain listlessness in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado
By chance, while reviewing Pablo Heras-Casado’s new Mendelssohn disc, I happened to catch a broadcast of him conducting the San...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies; Overtures
It is in the choral Second Symphony that the advantage of the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in...
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MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (Emelyanychev)
Maxim Emelyanychev | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024
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