His piano music showcases a Mendelssohn trademark –sounding as though written for three hands, Mendelssohn’s innate conservatism and disdain of chest-beating bravado is most strongly felt in his solo ...

The beauty of the composer’s piano trios is renewed in the hands of three virtuosos. By Edward Docx There is a wonderful and definitive new album of the two Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) piano trios ...

Immaculate performances of some of Mendelssohn's lesser-known but most interesting works. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 23 June 2014. Pianist Howard Shelley is one of the great interpreters early ...

The award-winning young Fournier Trio brings new life to Mendelssohn's Piano Trios. Mendelssohn only wrote two piano trios, which arguably represent the very pinnacle of his chamber music output. You ...

Jan Lisiecki, Gramophone's Young Artist of 2013, has reached the venerable age of 23, and has just released an album for DG that contains Mendelssohn's two piano concertos alongside two major solo ...

His birthday came and went in February without my mentioning it, but 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn, one of the most important composers in the history of Western ...

These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging a recording career on Berlin Classics with repertoire ...

“Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me,” a recent DVD release from Kultur International Films, reproduces a 2009 BBC TV film by UK-born writer Sheila Hayman about her eminent ancestor, the composer Felix ...

Take some sweeping passion and a bit of soaring ecstasy, add a dash of heart-rending despair, season with heaving breasts and sighing melodies, then mix it all together with impeccable elegance and ...

Felix Mendelssohn was still alive when the New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842. “He most certainly influenced our orchestra from its inception,” Philharmonic archivist Barbara Haws told the ...