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MENDELSSOHN Die erste Walpurgisnacht
It’s already apparent from a very early stage of The Hebrides that Douglas Boyd has thought carefully about instrumental balance...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
Mendelssohn Walpurgisnacht
The idea of pagans outwitting their Christian oppressors inspired Mendelssohn to pen some of his most mischievous musical invention: Berlioz...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream. Erste Walpurgisnacht.
Harnoncourt's performance of the Midsummer Night's Dream music is not quite complete, since the ''Fairies' March'' and the ''Funeral March''...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Mendelssohn Symphonies
There is much to be said in favour of both these new CDs of the Scottish Symphony. Dohnanyi in his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989
F & F MENDELSSOHN Choral Works (Temple)
The Crouch End Festival Chorus’s latest release focuses on rarely performed music by Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister, Fanny,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
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 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 Orchestral & Vocal Works
The Reformation Symphony surely sounds at its best when played straightforwardly and vigorously, and there is plenty of determination and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Mendelssohn Symphonies 3 & 4
Philharmonia Orchestra | Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica | Sándor Végh | Tamás Vásáry
The new disc celebrates Tamas Vasary's debut on record as a symphonic conductor, and it seems to me a great...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
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
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