Browse: Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)Genres:
Orchestral » Symphonies
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Tonal warmth and, where needed, weight go hand in hand with that essential Mendelssohnian quality of airy lightness. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2024, Editor's Choice
4 CDs
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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... — More…
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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
RecommendedChamber 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 its... — More…
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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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Emelyanychev is a conductor whose music-making exudes spontaneity and flexibility. — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures
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 weight... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Italian & Scottish Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Stanisław Skrowaczewski
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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... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Dausgaard homes in on Mendelssohn’s fiery energy, setting the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s playing satisfactorily ablaze. The approach pays dividends in No. 1, which f lares out in brilliant technicolour...In... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonytė (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor), Alexander Knox (Puck), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Titania), Frankie Wakefield (Oberon), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5 RecommendedBerlin 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.... — More…
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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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