Friday morning a small but enthusiastic audience at Kleinhans Music Hall heard the first of two performances in this weekend’s “Majestic Mendelssohn” concert. A childhood prodigy himself, that ...

Vivid performances of Mendelssohn favourites. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 19 May 2014. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mendelssohn's much-loved incidental music to A ...

From that brand new recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label, we hear the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Daniel Barenboim leads the Chicago Symphony, and Lang Lang is at the ...

Sometimes you really want to belt out a great passage of your favourite concerto. Great! But what if it's a summer's afternoon and you don't have an orchestra immediately to hand? That's no problem ...

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The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra will perform a total immersion Mendelssohn concert with German duo brothers Niklas Liepe (violin) and Nils Liepe (piano) in the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural ...

Kristian Bezuidenhout is about to rock your world. Maybe that statement sounds a bit too hyperbolic — but once you hear this South African-born fortepianist play, you'll instantly forget whatever ...

The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...