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 ...

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 ...

Alexandra Dovgan was one of the competitors at the Grand Piano Competition that took place in Moscow this month. It was set up by the pianist Denis Matsuev with the aim of discovering the great ...

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 ...

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Friday morning a small but enthusiastic audience at Kleinhans Music Hall heard the first of two performances in this weekend’s “Majestic Mendelssohn” concert. A childhood prodigy himself, that ...

The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...

The Piano Concerto No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn was part of a recent Rumanian National Orchestra concert. Pianist Valentin Gheorghiu (ghee-org'yoo) soloed, along with the Rumanian National Orchestra and ...