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Jonathan Biss joins the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on stage at Jordan Hall in Boston to play the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Mendelssohn.
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 ...
There’s something really invigorating about Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter’s approach to these two staples of the 19th-century romantic piano repertoire. It’s not so much a matter of speed as an ...
It is always fascinating to follow the progress of child prodigy musicians, because few if any actually realise their enormous early potential in adult years. Many fizzle out and lose interest along ...
Program: “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage,” Op. 27, by Felix Mendelssohn; Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Mendelssohn; Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian,” by Mendelssohn More ...
"Di Wu, she's an up and coming, just wonderful rising star. She was a Van Cliburn winner, which is a very important international piano competition and is just a sensational pianist, and we're super ...
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 ...
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 ...