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Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, Mendelssohn (composer)
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Special offer. Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio
RecommendedKaleidoscope Chamber Collective
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective continue to go from strength to strength. Their explorations of neglected repertoire from marginalised groups are not merely a much-needed contribution to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2022
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 2
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner conducts these pieces with a highly satisfying blend of freedom and discipline. In some of Mendelssohn's more lyrical moments...you need a metronome to judge his rhythmic flexibility,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Both [Op. 44 quartets] have long first movements – genial in the D major, more plangent and yearning in the E minor - and it’s a measure of the performances that they capture these moods with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Chamber Choice
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the Doric Quartet with Timothy Ridout make light of [No. 1's] formidable difficulties. Their very effective pianissimo playing stands them in particularly good stead in the quietly scurrying... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Volume 5
Overtures
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The most striking feature of these performances is their remarkable clarity of texture which even in the more forceful passages enables us to hear every strand of Mendelssohn’s incredibly resourceful... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Organ Sonatas Nos. 1-6, Op. 65
RecommendedWilliam Whitehead (organ in the Ballroom, Buckingham Palace)
Whitehead need not apologise for the apparent perversity of trying to recreate the frustrating performing conditions Mendelssohn would have found on his British tours… his immaculately articulated... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2009
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Op. 44/3 is the longest of the quartets, and the outer movements can sometimes come across as prolix. The Doric’s performance steers clear of this trap – again through the controlled variety... — More…
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Chamber
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36
(sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor) & Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Composed in the wake of (and influenced by) Mendelssohn's epoch-making performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Paulus is an impressive work whose punchy choruses bring out the best in Hickox. — More…
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