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 ...

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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter marks Mendelssohn's bicentennial with a new recording of his Violin Concerto, which she'll also perform Saturday and next Sunday with the San Francisco Symphony.

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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Isabelle Faust, Violin Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor Felix Mendelssohn, Composer (The) Hebrides, 'Fingal's Cave' Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ...

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 ...

Step into the timeless grandeur of St Giles’ Cathedral, a breathtaking space in the heart of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, and enjoy a candlelit evening of classical brilliance and lyrical beauty. This ...

It is typical of Christian Tetzlaff's questing musical intelligence that he should choose to launch his new association with the label Ondine not with a conventional pairing of the Mendelssohn violin ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Violinist-of-the-moment Ibragimova, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Vladimir Jurowski, ...

It is a remarkable enough fact that Mendelssohn wrote his String Octet at the age of only 16, a work of such youthful freshness and prodigious command of texture that it immediately marked him out as ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Richard Hickox, Conductor Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Mayumi Seiler, Violin City of London Sinfonia Concerto for Violin and Strings Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Mayumi ...

From the moment the first note rang out, this was no ordinary Proms night. Four wildly different pieces, one restless thread: mischief. Mendelssohn is the marquee name here but really this was a foray ...