Browse: Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40

both were designed to display his own credentials as a virtuoso pianist. Lars Vogt ’s dazzling playing on this new recording does them full justice. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Lisiecki sparkles and shines…The chamber-like sonorities and intricate interplay – surely the result of this being a conductor-less ensemble – are an endless delight…The small forces also ensure... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…

With Stephen Hough's Mendelssohn we enter a new dimension. The soft, stylish arpeggios that open the first work here, the Capriccio brillant, announce something special. But this is just a preparation... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Bezuidenhout’s instrument is an echt Érard…It’s capable of a wide range of colours and dynamics [Bezuidenhout is] as happy to allow his passagework to rumble away within the body of the orchestra... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

Brautigam uses a copy of a Pleyel piano of 1831 – just a year before the First Concerto was composed – and he skates over its keys with dazzling ease…he negotiates the cascades of notes with... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[On the original release] a winning soloist [Isabelle van Keulen] with a soft tone like the finest-spun silk – plus strength to match, when required — Gramophone Magazine More…