The Quatuor Danel are no strangers to Leipzig; their second recording of the complete cycle was made in this same Mendelssohn-Saal in 2022. It’s a mark of their reputation here that this recital was ...

Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony – Five-time Grammy Award-winner and celebrated ‘Queen of African Music’ Angélique Kidjo returns to the Proms following her 2019 debut.

Felix Mendelssohn was an early Romantic composer from Germany, born in February 1809. He wrote some of his most successful work as a teen, and from the ‘Scottish’ Symphony to Elijah, his music broke ...

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's 2025-'26 will salute the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus' 50th anniversary. 2025-'26 will be Ken-David Masur's final season as music director. Orchestra musicians Jinwoo ...

The program includes music by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Colorado composer Terry Schlenker. Colorado Community Bands Festival March 8, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., King Center Get your fill of woodwinds and brass.

Mendelssohn wrote two of the very greatest. The first, in D minor, was composed in 1839 when he was 30; the second, in C minor, in 1845 when he was 36, two years before he died in Leipzig. He was born ...

The city’s orchestra was helmed by Felix Mendelssohn himself in the 1800s. Half the streets in the city seem to bear famous composers’ names: Beethovenstraße, Mozartstraße, Haydnstraße, and ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will return to Europe in May 2025 with an all-Shostakovich repertoire commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the ...

Between 2019 and 2022, Thielemann recorded the cycle of 11 symphonies, including the studio and discarded symphonies (the so-called No. 00 and No. 0). It’s a version that exalts the sonorous glamour ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig enjoy a close partnership, established in 2018: the GHO-BSO Alliance, initiated by Andris Nelsons, music director of both orchestras.

In 1835, Mendelssohn accepted the position as conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. And one of the first things he did was to appoint his old childhood friend Ferdinand David as concertmaster ...