“MENDELSSOHN’S GREATEST HITS.” Various artists including Isaac...

“MENDELSSOHN’S GREATEST HITS.” Various artists including Isaac Stern, violin; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. CBS Masterworks compact disc MLK 39452. If you want to introduce someone to classical music, try this CD sampler. Most of Mendelssohn’s “hits” are here: the “Wedding March” from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; “Spring Song,” used for decades as comedian Jack Benny’s theme; the Violin Concerto in E minor, given a grand Romantic reading by Stern. The analog sound is a bit too bright and brassy on this CD.