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Here is a top contender among the increasing number of discs devoted to Mendelssohn’s six organ sonatas Op. 65. Although the Buckingham Palace Ballroom’s 1818
For her recording of Mendelssohn’s six organ sonatas, Susan Landale uses three restored 19th-century Bucholz instruments. I suspect that their richly sonorous yet individual timbres
Few collectors and fewer critics paid attention to Ilse von Alpenheim’s 1975 Philips Mendelssohn recital when it originally appeared on vinyl. Hopefully PentaTone’s multi-channel SACD
The Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler plays Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words beautifully. He commands a warm, singing sonority, tasteful musicality, plus fingerwork that is consistently fluent
Stephen Hough’s fresh and imaginative programming instincts inform a release that the pianist conceives as “two mini-recitals”. Both Mendelssohn’s Op. 54 and the Arietta of
This is an easy recommendation. With music this ingratiating and performances so absolutely idiomatic and interpretively “right”, you simply can’t go wrong. The choir, which
As a composer, Mendelssohn has a reputation for being cute and zippy, graceful and tasteful in an inhibited, Victorian sort of way, and so he
It’s really a bit hard to take seriously: the name of the orchestra (it’s French!, even if I Anglicize it here), the label (it’s Latin!),
BIS offers arguably the finest available performances of Mendelssohn’s complete string symphonies (including the full orchestra version of No. 8) on a single SACD lasting
Since her return to the concert circuit some five years ago, Midori has made a series of outstanding recordings for Sony, this being yet another.
