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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...