Friday morning a small but enthusiastic audience at Kleinhans Music Hall heard the first of two performances in this weekend’s “Majestic Mendelssohn” concert. A childhood prodigy himself, that ...

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 ...

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The excellent opening program of the Music@Menlo festival made two telling points about Mendelssohn, the focus of this summer's proceedings in his bicentennial year: One is how steeped he was in the ...

For centuries, perhaps millennia, storytellers have found the devil more interesting than the Lord. Among the more famous of them is John Milton, whose 17 th-century epic poem “Paradise Lost” depicted ...

For two decades, Siegwart “Zig” Reichwald, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and worship, engrossed himself in the sacred music of German composer and performer Felix Mendelssohn. But when he came ...

“Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me,” a recent DVD release from Kultur International Films, reproduces a 2009 BBC TV film by UK-born writer Sheila Hayman about her eminent ancestor, the composer Felix ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

She plays the intricate Rachmaninov arrangement of the Scherzo at a moderate tempo, slower than many, but with plenty of glittering fairy dust. Let's be real, Kanneh-Mason doesn't have Yuja Wang's ...