Mendelssohn Felix
Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) These performances will leave you marvelling anew at the music itself [CH]
Mendelssohn: String Quartets (Cedille)
(Déjà Review) A suitably warm and wonderfully detailed recording matches insight, imagination and colouristic sensibility [JW]
Fantasie – 7 Composers, 7 Keyboards (Harmonia Mundi)
The most fun musical history lesson I can imagine [DMD]
Mendelssohn, Dvořák: Piano Trios (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) Much beautiful playing here, polished and musical [PJL]
Nathan Milstein (violin) Concertos (Urania)
Tried and tested staples from Milstein’s discography [JW]
Joseph Szigeti (violin) European Columbia Recordings Vol. 3 (Pristine Audio)
Concertos and duos from Szigeti’s peak [JW]
Fritz Busch (conductor) (Guild)
(Déjà Review) A welcome addition to Guild’s Fritz Busch series [BBr]
Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten Maestro (Pristine Audio)
A welcome restoration of the recordings of a largely overlooked German conductor [JW]
Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten maestro (Pristine)
A welcome to a neglected conductor from the early electrical recording period in Berlin [GT]
Jascha Heifetz: The Heifetz Collection Vol 35 (RCA-BMG)
Vivid and admirable shorter pieces but a Mendelssohn that has a heart of jagged tin [RB]
Walter Gieseking (piano) His Columbia Graphophone Recordings (Warner Classics)
A splendid collection [SG]
Stefan Askenase (piano) Concerts (Meloclassic)
Finesse and elegance in these richly recorded recitals [RCh]
Mendelssohn/Kubelik: Violin Concertos (Hanssler)
The romantic First Violin Concerto of Jan Kubelík receives a premiere recording [JW]