Another aspect which is particularly winning is the creaminess of Ehnes’s lower register, so you really appreciate the lows (literally) as well as the highs in the Concerto. The Andante movements ...

The influence of Mendelssohn is reflected also in the ninth instalment of Hyperion's Romantic Violin Concerto series. Ferdinand David (1810-73) is best remembered as the violinist who premiered ...

When Daniel Hope was an 8-year-old violin student at the Menuhin School in England, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto was forbidden ... At times, this lovely andante sounds like a lullaby.

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 ...

Nearly 150 years after its composition, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto remains one of the most regularly performed and most loved of all instrumental concertos. And ever since its birth, the work has ...

for a moment of the beautiful first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. This talented fellow is violin virtuoso Guy Braunstein, who expertly navigates the solo and orchestral lines of the ...

Although Mendelssohn came from a Jewish family ... Period instruments also score in the Violin Concerto. Isabelle Faust is a soloist of elfin quickness of spirit and there is tremendous drive ...

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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 ...

When Mendelssohn wrote his Violin Concerto in 1844 he could hardly have imagined how famous and well loved it would become. In this programme, people tell how it has played an important part in ...