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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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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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Offer, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61, etc.
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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: 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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Lost Is My Quiet
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The art of vocal duetting is exemplified at its best in this recital by two of today’s finest British singers, working with an accompanist of equal merit…each singer has solo items…Yet the most... — More…
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New, Offer, Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonytė (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor), Alexander Knox (Puck), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Titania), Frankie Wakefield (Oberon), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Offer, On Christmas Night
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Carols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonyté (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Singers produce, as ever, a clean, well-focused tone and there is much pleasure to be had in Lucy Crowe’s radiant soprano and Michael Spyres’s lyrical tenor, making the most of... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Works for Cello & Piano
Christian Poltéra (cello), Ronald Brautigam (piano)
I cannot imagine these Mendelssohn pieces played with a deeper understanding, not just of their supreme logic but of the opportunities within that logic for expressive freedoms, always bearing... — More…
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New, Offer, Mendelssohn: Transcriptions for Organ
Christoph Schoener (organ of St. Michaelis-Church, Hamburg)