With more than 250 years of music-making to its legacy, it is no surprise that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings with it a real, unshakable sense of history. As chief conductor Riccardo Chailly ...
Composer Niels Gade is as important to the cultural history of Denmark as is the author Hans Christian Andersen. It’s unfortunate that Gade’s music is not as widely recognized beyond his homeland as ...
Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. "And where is Fanny?" – that's the question asked by ...
The arrival this month in Chicago of two of Germany’s most venerable orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus, will give local audiences a rare side-by-side opportunity to assess the ...
Further visits to Britain during the early 1830s cemented Mendelssohn’s relationship with the country which he now considered his second home, but with the European tour now effectively at an end he ...
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(11 February 2022) The year 2022 marks the 175th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's death on 4 November 1847 in Leipzig. At the same time, the Mendelssohn House will celebrate its 25th ...
The Mendelssohn celebrations in Leipzig are getting underway in earnest this month, and my old friend Brendan Carroll is off to sample the scrumptious offerings. Brendan enjoys scrumptiousness, being ...
BOSTON - Most classical music concerts feature one instrumental soloists. Occasionally, there are two soloists, especially if they're singers. But three pianists on the same stage at the same time ...