
Iván Fischer seems to have caught a severe case of Micro-Managitus, not that we couldn’t see it coming. The symptoms are evident in the Midsummer
The past three decades have seen a slow but steady discovery of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s extensive solo piano output. Listen to this remarkable music without knowing
We can only speculate about how great a composer Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel could have become had she been given the opportunity to entirely dedicate herself to
Was Fanny Mendelssohn as accomplished a songwriter as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, or her famous brother? Let’s just say that on the evidence of this and
From the fuzzy articulation in the Oratorium’s introductory galloping string figures to the overall substandard sound, this disc requires a determined listener to stay around