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 ...

It is a remarkable enough fact that Mendelssohn wrote his String Octet at the age of only 16, a work of such youthful freshness and prodigious command of texture that it immediately marked him out as ...

Lithuanian-born Julian Rachlin joins the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, under Sir Roger Norrington, for a performance of Mendelssohn's great Violin Concerto in E Minor.

Anyone aspiring to be a concert violinist simply has to have this one in his or her repertoire. Nearly 150 years after its composition, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto remains one of the most regularly ...

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Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...

You may be surprised by the recessed, almost faint profile of the solo violin at the start of Isabelle Faust’s new recording of Mendelssohn’s E minor Violin Concerto. That balance and her unusually ...

Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra welcome violinist Gil Shaham back to NJSO stages for performances of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Oct. 23–26 in Newark, Red Bank ...

Mendelssohn had already written over a hundred pieces in nearly every genre before he turned to his Concerto for violin and piano at the age of just fourteen years old. Stephen Johnson sifts through ...

Ralph Matson takes the solo spotlight in the Violin Concerto in E Minor, by Felix Mendelssohn. He performed it at the Grand Teton Music Festival in June, and so he's joined by the Grand Teton Music ...