Browse: Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
RecommendedMaria 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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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 5
RecommendedIsabelle 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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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 1 RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Unsurprisingly, the quality of the playing here is very high. I particularly enjoyed the timpani roars in The Hebrides Overture. In the Italian Symphony, Gardner coaxes elegant phrasing from... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Fanny Hensel & Felix Mendelssohn: Arias, Lieder, Overtures
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano)
Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Daniel Grossmann
Reiss has a bright, warm and open tone which enhances both composers with sincerity and spontaneity...The orchestrations by Tal-Haim Samnon are reasonably satisfying, though do occasionally veer... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Mendelssohn: Italian & Scottish Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Stanisław Skrowaczewski
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski
what was the thinking behind teaming together a soloist who uses vibrato, albeit tastefully, and a string band who don't? Not that I necessarily object to the result...Ibragimova's sensitive... — More…
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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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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish' & Widmann: 180 Beats per minute, Fantasie
Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann
On paper, the programme planning seems incongruous, since there appears to be no obvious stylistic connection between the two composers. Yet in practice, the contrasts work surprisingly well... — More…
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Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvořák & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Collection
Joseph Swensen (violin & conductor)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
There’s an impressive level of excellence throughout, though Swensen is adaptable to moods between and within concertos…I love his natural way with slow movements, especially Mendelssohn’s and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Orchestral Choice
4 CDs
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