The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...

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Building a Library compares recordings of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.5, the 'Reformation'. It was written to mark the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession in 1530, a ...

Donald Macleod places the teenage Mendelssohn’s exceptional talent in music alongside his abilities as a keen amateur landscape artist, including extracts from his youthful Octet and Concerto in D ...

Mendelssohn was neither Beethoven nor Brahms. Having made this self-evident statement, and noting that he was contemporaneous with the former for the first 18 years of his life, and with the latter ...

Mercury's Mozart & Mendelssohn features Mozart: A Little Night Music, C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in B Minor, and Mendelssohn: String Symphony in F Major. A limited number of in-person tickets are available ...

Mendelssohn spent her whole life immersed in creating music, beginning at a young age with lessons from her mother (who had been taught by a pupil of JS Bach). Throughout her life she organised weekly ...