Listen to the opening of Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, as played by Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and friends on the irresistible recording they made in 1961 at the old Elvis-haunted RCA studios ...

In the world of classical music, there have been many prodigies, but few of them have blazed as early and spectacular a trail as Felix Mendelssohn. At 16, he penned one of the undisputed masterpieces ...

At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...

An exploration of the impact on people of Mendelssohn's Octet and the healing power of music around the world. From August 2011. Show more An exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has had ...

Octet for strings (I) Solisti Filarmonici Italiani Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Sextet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer (I) Solisti Filarmonici Italiani The group’s members are fundamentally ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

Most music-lovers know that precocious Felix Mendelssohn wrote his astonishing octet in 1825 when he was only 16, but perhaps fewer realise that the version we know so well is actually his revision of ...

Mendelssohn Octet for Strings The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play ...

The Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets let us inside their Manchester rehearsals for a performance of Mendelssohn's amazing Octet. Show more The Elias Quartet join forces with the Emmeline ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor James Ehnes, Violin Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Philharmonia Orchestra Octet for strings James Ehnes, Violin Seattle Chamber Music ...

In our seemingly endless effort to categorize, quantify and qualify nearly everything, the question is often raised: "Who was the world's greatest classical music prodigy?" Mozart, Mendelssohn, ...