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 ...

American violinist Chad Hoopes was born in 1994. His debut CD pairs a work first heard in January of that year, the Violin Concerto by John Adams, with a staple from the middle of the 19th-century, ...

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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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most frequently performed works in the repertoire, so most violinists might have to consider how to make it fresh for audiences. Violinist Geneva ...

The first ever vinyl LP ever pressed, Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor, has been recreated to celebrate seven decades of the format. The original master tapes and artwork from the 1948 ...

Under the baton of guest conductor Ankush Kumar Bahl, Elgin Symphony Orchestra will perform its “Beethoven’s Eroica” concert Feb. 5 and 6 at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. If you’ve always ...

Mendelssohn wrote these two concertos at the ages of 13 and 14, at a time when he was developing at astonishing speed. (He would write two of his best pieces while still in his teens, the Octet at 16 ...

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 ...