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Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)

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Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)

Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 386 Mb | Total time: 01:23:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439934002 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

For her new double-album Sol Gabetta teams up with excellent French pianist Betrand Chamayou, with whom she plays sold out concerts in major concert halls. The album features Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano and new, short pieces written by famous contemporary composers Wolfgang Rihm, Heinz Holliger, Francisco Coll and Jörg Widman specifically for this album, all of which were inspired by Mendelssohn’s beautiful "Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109." The album was recorded at the famous new Philharmonie de Paris.

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

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Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 387 MB | 01:23:38
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical ‎

For this 2009 release, internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos celebrates the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, whose brief meteoric career helped shape Romantic music. Engaging the listener immediately, the album opens with a rousing performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64. which is both conducted and performed by Kavakos.

Gabrieli String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

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Gabrieli String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

Gabrieli String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:08 | 296 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN 8827

The well-known British string quartet was founded in 1967 by Kenneth Sillito, who led the ensemble for some twenty years before passing the responsibility to John Georgiadis, at which point the Quartet entered into an exclusive contract with Chandos and made a number of fine recordings. It toured widely abroad and in the UK and was noted for its well-balanced performances. ‘I know this is a disc to be enjoyed again and again. The sound is simply flawless’, wrote the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

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Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 68:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902702 | Recorded: 2022

A lover of historical keyboard instruments, Alexander Melnikov has already successfully met the challenge of exploring ‘Four Pieces, Four Pianos’ on disc and in concert back in 2018. Today, he has chosen to perform seven emblematic works of the fantasia genre on harpsichord, fortepiano, tangent piano, early grands, and so on. In this journey through the keyboards of time, we can discover these pieces as they sounded at the time of their creation, but also grasp the invisible thread that links them to each other.

Christian Li - Discovering Mendelssohn (2023)

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Christian Li - Discovering Mendelssohn (2023)

Christian Li - Discovering Mendelssohn (2023)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 70:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3987 | Recorded: 2023

Christian Li walks in the footsteps of Mendelssohn, bringing the music from his travels around Europe to life. Recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, we follow Mendelssohn’s own journeys, with pieces written in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Munich, Venice & London, including music from the composer’s own inspirations and contemporaries: J. S. Bach, Mozart & Schubert.

Alban Berg Quartett - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 12 & Op. 13 (2005)

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Alban Berg Quartett - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 12 & Op. 13 (2005)

Alban Berg Quartett - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 12 & Op. 13 (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 244 MB | 50:23
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Shortly after Beethoven's death in 1827, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn composed his String Quartet in A minor. Two years later, while on tour in England, the 20-year-old Mendelssohn composed his String Quartet in E flat major. The young Mendelssohn knew and loved Beethoven's late quartets – he'd heard, played, and even analyzed them – and his.

Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)

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Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)

Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:35 | 333 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49663 2

Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result is a generous issue which on every front can be warmly recommended for exceptionally strong and positive performances, vividly recorded. The Rondo in A, D438, dating from 1816, the year of his Concertstuck in D for violin and orchestra, was originally written for solo violin accompanied by string quartet.

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (2016)

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John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (2016)

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (2016)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 254 Mb | Total time: 62:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: LSO | # LSO 0769 | Recorded: 2014, 2016

Constantly in the vanguard of enlightened interpretation, Sir John Eliot Gardiner stands as a leader in today’s musical life. His award-winning Mendelssohn cycle on LSO Live showcases his period performance expertise; the LSO muscians standing to play, highlighting their individual musicianship. As Gardiner notes: "It gives a different type of dynamism and energy… it means that the fiddles are freer in the way that they attack the extremely virtuosic lines and it gives a tremendous sense of occasion to the music making."

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (2001)

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (2001)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 196 Mb | Total time: 57:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 468 600-2 | Recorded: 2000

In order to expand the breadth of his performance career, Thibold has been actively exploring repertoire that is less popularly recorded in recent years. These two piano concertos by Mendelssohn are crystal clear and graceful under Thiebaud's skillful hands. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is the oldest orchestra in the world. Mendelssohn was invited to be the fifth conductor of the orchestra in 1835. Therefore, this episode invites them to take on the important responsibility of concerto, which is particularly meaningful.

EnAccord String Quartet - Visions: Gems from the quartet literature (2021)

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EnAccord String Quartet - Visions: Gems from the quartet literature (2021)

EnAccord String Quartet - Visions: Gems from the quartet literature (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 252 Mb | Total time: 55:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera | # KTC1691 | Recorded: 2020

Given that Sergei Prokofiev's 'Visions fugitives' are central to this recording, Visions is a fitting title for a CD devoted to works that differ greatly in style, atmosphere and artistic intent. The works include the stately court music of Henry Purcell, the elegantly classical world of Maddalena Lombardini, the exalted passions of Guillaume Lekeu, the existential fears of Elizabeth Maconchy, the controlled romanticism of Mendelssohn and the musical iconoclasm of Stravinsky.

Stephen Darlington, Oxford Philomusica - George Frideric Handel: Acis & Galatea (arr. Mendelssohn) (2012)

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Stephen Darlington, Oxford Philomusica - George Frideric Handel: Acis & Galatea (arr. Mendelssohn) (2012)

Stephen Darlington, Oxford Philomusica - George Frideric Handel: Acis & Galatea (arr. Mendelssohn) (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 75:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Nimbus Alliance | # NI 6201 | Recorded: 2012

The young Felix Mendelssohn's acquaintance with Acis and Galatea was due to Carl Friedrich Zelter, his composition teacher and conductor of the Berlin Singakademie. In 1828 Zelter asked Mendelssohn, by then a student at Berlin's university, to produce rescored versions of both Acis and Galatea and the Dettingen Te Deum for the use of the Singakademie. According to Fanny these orchestrations were a quid pro quo for obtaining Zelter's blessing on Felix's proposed revival of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and securing the cooperation of the Singakademie in the venture, which came to fruition on 11 March 1829.

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Mendelssohn - Mozart (2023)

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Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Mendelssohn - Mozart (2023)

Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Mendelssohn - Mozart (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.3 GB
9:48:56 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

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Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 69:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9463 | Recorded: 2010

In a scene where the recordings of young sopranos tend toward an extreme sameness, Austria's Anna Prohaska would deserve kudos simply for the ambition of this release of soldiers' songs. The idea, especially for a female singer, is original, and the music draws on a great variety of sources, from Scottish song to Wolfgang Rihm. Better still is the execution, which shows Prohaska's extreme versatility.

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 ‘Lobgesang’ (2017)

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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 ‘Lobgesang’ (2017)

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 ‘Lobgesang’ (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:03 | 273 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: LSO Live | Catalog: LSO0803

Bringing his acclaimed Mendelssohn cycle to a rousing conclusion, Sir John Eliot Gardiner presents the composer s symphony-cantata, 'Lobgesang', in his first ever performance of the work. Three world-class soloists join the LSO and his own Monteverdi Choir for this recording for LSO Live. Mendelssohn wrote that the piece 'lies very near my heart', and with its stately grandeur and religiosity, plus its sheer magnitude, twice the length of any of his other symphonies, it stands amongst his most impressive works.

Joshua Bell - Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2002)

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Joshua Bell - Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2002)

Joshua Bell - Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) - 325 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 176 MB | Covers Included | 01:09:52
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: 89505

Joshua Bell's fresh approach to these violin warhorses makes for an unexpectedly inviting listening experience. In the Mendelssohn he marries his bright tone to forthright phrasing in a manner that communicates the music's emotion without sliding into the gooey sweetness heard in some interpretations. There's little if anything hackneyed about Bell's reading, indicating he's thought about the work anew, right through to the stylistically appropriate cadenza he composed himself (Bell cites research that suggests Mendelssohn's friend Ferdinand David may have actually composed the original cadenza).