Since you are interested in Mendelssohn: Choral Music, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
PURCELL / MENDELSSOHN / FAURE / FINZI / ELGAR / FRANCK
Hear My Prayer-Hymns and Anthems Karina Gauvin (Soprano), Matthew Larkin (Organ) / St. John's Choir, Elora / Noel Edison (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "The first class performances demonstrate tremendous technical accomplishment. I wonder if I will hear a finer release of sacred choral music this year." (MusicWeb June 2006) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 4, 6 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] "Three cheers for all concerned! This excellent quartet, recorded in the ideal acoustic setting of Holy Martyr's Church in Bradford, Ontario comes across as a symphonically rich group with tight ensemble, perfect intonation and a pulsing energy most... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 - Nos. 2 & 5 New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The New Zealand Quartet clearly love this music, and their strong sense of internal balance allows them to bring out many telling details that often go unnoticed…" Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Maiden's Prayer: Leaves from Grandmother's piano album Peter Nagy, Balazs Szokolay (pianos) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] The nineteenth century was the age of the piano. The newly developed instrument, decorated in the domestic taste of the time and strengthened by the use of an iron frame, making maintenance much easier, proved an admirable centre of home entertainment. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Peter Nagy (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "He is a gifted player who shows considerable artistry" - Penguin Guide |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Great Violinists - Kreisler : Vol.5, Mendelssohn / Beethoven (Rec 35/36) Fritz Kreisler (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barbirolli, Ronald [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] Classic historic recordings remastered |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Sweeping energy and well-shaped long melodic lines make both these performances gripping and rewarding" BBC Music Magazine |
FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Piano sonatas in C and G minor Heather Schmidt (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] It is only relatively recently that Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel has stepped out of the shadow of her more famous sibling Felix. Nearly all of her five hundred or so compositions remained unpublished during her lifetime, despite their undeniable beauty,... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mendelssohn/Schumann: Piano Trios (rec 1927-1928) Jacques Thibaud / Pablo Casals / Alfred Cortot [ Naxos Historical Great Chamber Recordings / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] Cortot, an unashamedly romantic pianist who was perhaps the finest exponent of Chopin, Schumann and Franck in his time, was born at Nyon, Switzerland, on 26th September 1877 of a French father and a Swiss mother. |
MOZART / MENDELSSOHN
Great Violinists - Heifetz Jascha Heifetz, Violin, Royal Philharmonic, Beecham, London Philh, Barbirolli [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 23/Jun/2001 ] Recordings to be cherished |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker (sopranos) / Varsity Voices / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "The self-contained numbers...may be familiar items, but on disc...you discover and enjoy so much more: the flashes of instrumental colour, the exquisite little tone paintings that intersperse or accompany the spoken text...Judd's New Zealand and... |
MENDELSSOHN
Flute Concerto in D minor / Flute Sonatas Marc Grauwels (Flute) / Wallonie Royal Chamber Orchestra / Jean-Francois Chamberlan (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] The present release includes transcriptions for flute by Marc Grauwels of early compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, a violin concerto and two sonatas for violin and piano, a new adaptation that is closer to the original version. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 / Variations concertantes Maria Kliegel (cello) Kristin Merscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Kliegel and Merscher deserve prime recommendation." BBC Music Magazine |
MAUD POWELL
The Complete Recordings Vol. 3 (1904-1917) Maud Powell (Violin) George Falkenstein (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "..showcases this fine player's talents in a variety of smaller compositions, most unexpectedly in a previously-unissued La boheme potpourri - an extremely lifelike recording, expecially given its pre-electric provenance." - Gramophone |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Works For Violin And Piano Nomos Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2009 ] "I cannot imagine how these performances could be bettered." - Joseph Magil, American Record Guide, January/February 2002 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 and 2 / Capriccio Brillant / Rondo Brillant Benjamin Frith (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Frith is clearly a most capable artist, with a fearsomely accurate set of fingers and a poetic instinct of no mean order" - CD Review |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Requiem Mass (Grande Messe des Morts, Op.5 ) Michael Schade, tenor ; Elora Festival Orchestra ; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir / Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir ; Noel Edison, conductor [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] "I'm drawn to Maestro Edison and crew because theirs is, first and foremost, a choral performance." - American Record Guide (Philip Greenfield), July-August, 2000 |
MENDELSSOHN
Symphonies Nos 1 & 5 "Reformation" National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Reinhard Seifried [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "The performances are as delightful as the music." Classics Today |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 - Nos. 3 & String Quartet in E flat New Zealand String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] Praised by Gramophone for the "deep feeling" of its playing on Volume 1 (8570001) the New Zealand String Quartet here completes its recording of all the Mendelssohn Quartets. |