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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 & Overture, Op. 21
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Ceri-Lyn Cissone (narrator), Alexander Knox (narrator) & Frankie Wakefield (narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
…much to enjoy here…pinpoint precision of melody-carrying flutes and violins, the sure footed bass and above all a sense that the composer is being taken seriously. — More…
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 5
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Isabelle Faust (violin)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Faust is the Wise Child of the violin world, combining the innocent exuberance of a prodigy with a commanding intellectual depth that carries all before it…If the Reformation is harder to love... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 'Italian'
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner keeps the LSO on its toes both in the C minor work and the Italian symphony, the winds producing crystal-clear articulation the hair-raisingly fast account of the latter’s concluding... — More…
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
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Budapest Festival Orchestra & Pro Musica (women's choir), Iván Fischer
Fischer is alive to the magical atmosphere of Felix Mendelssohn’s score and nowhere more keenly than at the start of the overture, where the four wind chords are extended beyond their usual... — More…
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Mendelssohn, Grieg & Hough: Cello Sonatas
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Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano)
If any reminder were needed that Steven Isserlis is at the top of his game, this is it...Their opening Allegro agitato is a thrilling tour de force, Isserlis sinewy and febrile, Hough's sound... — More…
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Kozhukhin plays Mendelssohn with an almost business-like elegance…the mechanics of this pianist’s impressive hands trump the expressivity of an imagined singer’s voice. Grieg’s straightforwardly... — More…
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Offer, Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano
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Johannes Moser (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson offer fine, full-blooded performances of all this repertoire. Beatson uses an Érard piano from 1837…allowing for maximum clarity and lightness in rapid passagework,... — More…
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This third recital album from Benjamin Grosvenor is every bit as pianistically brilliant as its precedents, showing off his fluid virtuosity, musical sensitivity and fearless approach...[the... — More…
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
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Maria João Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
[Pires] has the enviable ability to make everything sound fresh but natural, and her tone is enchanting...The definition on [the Blu-ray] is superb and the camera work actually helps the viewer... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
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Christiane Karg, Christina Landshamer (sopranos) & Michael Schade (tenor)
Chorus & Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, Pablo Heras-Casado
Its quasi-devotional, cross-genre status demands special advocacy, and gets it ...Michael Schade, Christiane Karg and Christina Landshammer are the persuasive soloists, while the chorus radiates... — More…
