Choral, Oratorios & Passions, Mendelssohn (composer)
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Mendelssohn: Paulus, Elias, Symphonies Nos. 1-5
RecommendedGeorg Zeppenfeld (Paulus), Andrè Schuen (Elias), Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons understands Mendelssohn's sound world much as his onetime predecessor at the Gewandhaus Kurt Masur did...I'd call this luminously recorded set a treasure trove for Mendelssohnians and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd April 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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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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Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70
Recommended(sung in English)
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Jonty Ward (treble), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor) & Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme & Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Connolly sings with mellifluous tone and Simon Keenlyside is an Elijah of spirit and intelligence: he may not have the sheer weight of a Bryn Terfel, but he's alive to every shift of meaning... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th August 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Oratorio
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The World of Sacred Music
Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral, John Scott (organ), The St. Anthony Singers, Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Semple (treble), Jonathan Chinchen (treble), Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Peter White (organ), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Academy...
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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. —
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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out of the bran tub comes my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 - Joy in the morning, another wide-ranging collection from Jeffrey Skidmore's excellent Birmingham-based choir, Ex Cathedra.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70
Recommended(sung in English)
Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Patricia Bardon, John Mark Ainsley
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Paul Daniel
Paul Daniel and Bryn Terfel ensure that this is one of the most dramatic performances of the oratorio on disc. The young conductor, with the advantage of an excellent period instrument orchestra,... —
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Building a Library, November 2000, First Choice
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Warner Classics has reissued a complete set of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s studio recordings, reuniting for the first time Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, HMV, Decca and Telefunken in one release. This... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Réédition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Historical
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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!
Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Nelly Kokinos (piano), Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei, Steven Isserlis (cello), Xavier De Maistre (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Johns Williams (guitar), James Galway (flute), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Samuel Lipman & Leo Litwin (pianos), Martin Hoherman (xylophone),...
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