SACD, Mendelssohn (composer)
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Mendelssohn: Elijah
RecommendedMasabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
Pappano makes the most of his extensive experience in the opera house to bring a compelling sense of purpose and dramatic thrust to this new recording, which positively fizzes and crackles with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann
RecommendedMaria 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... —
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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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Responsive to Schumann's elaboration of the postlude as a means of commenting or emotional elucidation, Werner hitches an extinguishing coda to the last song that dovetails exquisitely into... —
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'
Jone Martínez, Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Eri Sawae, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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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,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonyté (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Singers produce, as ever, a clean, well-focused tone and there is much pleasure to be had in Lucy Crowe’s radiant soprano and Michael Spyres’s lyrical tenor, making the most of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 'Italian'
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner keeps the LSO on its toes both in the C minor work and the Italian symphony, the winds producing crystal-clear articulation the hair-raisingly fast account of the latter’s concluding... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th September 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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The art of vocal duetting is exemplified at its best in this recital by two of today’s finest British singers, working with an accompanist of equal merit…each singer has solo items…Yet the most... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 3
sung in English, Mary Bevan (soprano I), Sophie Bevan (soprano II) & Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, Edward Gardner
Calm Sea is one of Mendelssohn's most evocative pieces...and Edward Gardner conducts a most sensitive performance...[in the Symphony] Gardner stresses what over the years we have come to consider... —
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Special offer. Grieg: Lyric Pieces & Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
RecommendedDenis Kozhukhin (piano)
Kozhukhin plays Mendelssohn with an almost business-like elegance…the mechanics of this pianist’s impressive hands trump the expressivity of an imagined singer’s voice. Grieg’s straightforwardly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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