This page lists all recordings of String Symphony No. 1 in C major, by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Mendelssohn - Complete Symphonies Volume 3
The Heidelberger Sinfoniker and Thomas Fey are already well-known from their numerous critically acclaimed Haydn recordings. Here they continue their equally welcome recordings of the complete “Symphonic” works of Mendelssohn. Highly recommended. “The bracing exuberance of Mendelssohn’s writing comes teeming off the page in these electrifying performances…..Every note rings true as Fey inspires his magnificent players to virtuoso heights of darting textural interplay and staccato brilliance.” International Record Review, March 2009 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Ultra Extended Playing Time. These products can only be played on a machine with SACD capability. They cannot be played on a conventional CD player. These exuberant works, with their traceable influences from both Mozart and Haydn were all composed between 1821 and 1824, by a composer who had not yet turned 15 “[On the original 4-CD release] Life-enhancing music…. [and] performances to match from a group with brilliance of execution and beautiful even tone as a starting-point for the classical athletic grace, joie de vivre, and often striking ideas” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mendelssohn - Complete String Symphonies, Volume 2
“Amazing stuff, brilliantly performed. The first of the symphonies fair bursts from the staves, with a chuckling finale that would surely have delighted Rossini. And although the Sixth Symphony's finale harbours hints of miracles to come, Mendelssohn's mature personality is more comprehensively anticipated in the Seventh.
Again, the finale suggests the ebullient, life-affirming manner of the orchestral symphonies, albeit sobered by a spot of fugally formal writing later on. The 12th Symphony opens with a Handelian sense of ceremony, goes on to incorporate a characteristically tender Andante and ends with a finale that, to quote Stig Jacobsson's enthusiastic notes, 'dies away to pizzicato and a subsequent accelerando which recalls Rossini'.
This is truly delightful music, the playing both sensitive and exciting, while BIS's sound is impressively full-bodied.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 1
“It's refreshing to hear such bracing readings of these wonderful little works!...I'll eagerly await the next instalment in this series.” Fanfare | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mendelssohn Symphonies for Strings Nos. 1-6
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Agnieszka Duczmal | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies Volume 1
Recorded at the Great Hall, Birmingham University,1988 “Taken overall, these are fine performances and the recording is warm, ambient and very well defined. Recommended” CD Review | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Festival Strings Lucerne, Achim Fiedler Mendelssohn’s symphonies for strings, the “youthful symphonies”, are only rarely performed. It is hard to believe that the composer wrote these works between the ages of 12 and 14. Fiedler has studied the autographs in detail and corrected individual textual errors in the printed editions, as well as textual inconsistencies in the available editions. | | | (also available to download from $30.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The thirteen string symphonies that Mendelssohn wrote between 1821and 1823 are not only evidence of his exceptionally rapid development, they are also examples of wonderful, virtuoso music that reveals the influence of CPE Bach, JS Bach and Handel. This new complete recording of these works on the ORFEO label features the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Founded more than 50 years ago, the SCO has gradually built up a repertory that extends from the Baroque to the present day, thereby guaranteeing a flexible and keenly differentiated kind of playing, due not least to the ensemble's principal conductor, Michael Hofstetter, who is likewise at home in a wide variety of styles.The verve of the first symphony's opening Allegro is maintained throughout all the fast movements, while the slow movements are characterised by their gently flowing cantabile lines, which extend to the quotations of folksongs found in the two 'Swiss' symphonies.The last two symphonies, finally, are notable for their contrapuntal procedures and polyphonic accomplishment. Here the composer and his interpreters have found an appropriately playful approach to complex fugal subjects and developments. In this way this set of youthful works is brought to a suitably masterly conclusion, providing a further powerful addition to the 2009 celebrations marking the Mendelssohn bicentenary. “…there are several complete sets to rival this new issue… Broadly speaking the new set offers performances a degree more refined and polished, helped by recording with the widest dynamic range, down to the most delicate pianissimos.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Agnieszka Duczmal | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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