While searching through the Berlin State Library, BYU music professor Steve Lindeman came upon an original version of one of Felix Mendelssohn?s concertos that had not been played for over 200 years.
In July of 1838, German composer Feliz Mendelssohn wrote to his friend and colleague, violinist Ferdinand David: “I should ...
Discover Mendelssohn's lesser-known violin music in the context of his brilliant Violin Concerto in E minor. Drive Featured Album 28 January 2013. Mendelssohn's Violin Concertos are rarely anything ...
III. Presto – Molto allegro e vivacePerformance duration 18' 31"Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25Felix ...
With installment 51 in their Romantic Piano Concerto series, the Hyperion label has turned over yet another damp rock, and look what's popped up! Concertos by German composers Wilhelm Taubert and ...
Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...
What seems at first glance a relatively straightforward Mendelssohn disc, played by the orchestra of which he was music director for the last 16 years of his life, and released to coincide with the ...
Gottfried von der Goltz’s solos are full of the swells we’re accustomed to hearing in earlier music, rounded off with a hint of easy portamento, but his short-breathed phrasing and vigorous spiccato ...
These two works were written when Mendelssohn was 13. The Violin Concerto in D minor – not to be confused with the famous E minor Concerto No 2 – was rediscovered by Yehudi Menuhin in the last century ...