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Mendelssohn: Symphonies
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
This new release of Mendelssohn’s complete symphonies confirms the symbiotic relationship Järvi has forged with the orchestra, and is jam-packed with exciting, at times electrifying, music-making...Many... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 22nd Mar 2024
- Catalogue No: ALPHA1004
- Label: Alpha
- Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, Orchestral Choice
4 CDs
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Maria 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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 3 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 13th Oct 2014
- Catalogue No: LSO0765
- Label: LSO Live
- Length: 79 minutes
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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: Symphonies Nos. 1-5
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) evoke the effervescent, restless, driven essence of Mendelssohn, often almost to perfection. The scherzo of the Scottish Symphony with... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 16th Jun 2017
- Catalogue No: 4797337
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 24th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag
This is a performance con amore. Yet Maag never short-changes the symphony's drama and rugged power…The LSO's magnificent horn battalion - four instruments sounding like 16 - out-brays virtually... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 More…
- Catalogue No: E4669902
- Label: Decca
- Series: Legends
- Length: 79 minutes
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
- Release Date: 1st Mar 1994
- Catalogue No: 4399802
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Series: Galleria
- Length: 69 minutes
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Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Karita Mattila (soprano), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Claudio Abbado
It is in the choral Second Symphony that the advantage of the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in clarifying the big tuttis with choir, at the same time providing extra... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
- Release Date: 11th Nov 2001
- Catalogue No: 4714672
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Series: Collectors Edition
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
4 CDs
$25.50
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Offer,Mendelssohn, Schumann: Symphonies
Antal Dorati
- Release Date: 18th Sep 2020
- Catalogue No: ELQ4840506
- Label: Eloquence
- Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
2 CDs
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5
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Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ashkenazy makes the climax of the Adagio [in the Scottish] dramatically urgent rather than sombrely massive, and conducts perhaps the most ferocious finale on disc, steely trumpets to the fore.... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 More…
- Catalogue No: 4709462
- Label: Decca
- Series: Trio
- Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice
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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,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 1st Sep 2014
- Catalogue No: CHSA5139
- Label: Chandos
- Series: Mendelssohn in Birmingham
- Length: 74 minutes
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Not only does Litton turn...limitations into values (stiffness becomes strength, academicism becomes technical wizadry and a source of delight), he incorporates them into an overall view of... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…
- Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
- Catalogue No: BISSACD1604
- Label: BIS
- Length: 70 minutes
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