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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Stephen Johnson explores Mendelssohn's rarely heard Concerto for violin and piano to examine how the composer was already racing from being a child prodigy to an incipient genius. Show more ...

An award-winning 10-year-old pianist played a Mendelssohn Piano Concerto with the New York International Chamber Orchestra this week – and he was so good you might cry. Earlier this week, 10-year-old ...

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 ...