Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter marks Mendelssohn's bicentennial with a new recording of his Violin Concerto, which she'll also perform Saturday and next Sunday with the San Francisco Symphony.

These two works were written when Mendelssohn was 13. The Violin Concerto in D minor – not to be confused with the famous E minor Concerto No 2 – was rediscovered by Yehudi Menuhin in the last century ...

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 ...

The Orchestra of the Bronx announced it will conclude its 2025-26 season with a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's "Symphony ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Chad Hoopes, Violin Kristjan Järvi, Conductor Mid-German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Kristjan ...

Discover Mendelssohn's lesser-known violin music in the context of his brilliant Violin Concerto in E minor. Drive Featured Album 28 January 2013. Mendelssohn's Violin Concertos are rarely anything ...

From the moment the first note rang out, this was no ordinary Proms night. Four wildly different pieces, one restless thread: mischief. Mendelssohn is the marquee name here but really this was a foray ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Isabelle Faust, Violin Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor Felix Mendelssohn, Composer (The) Hebrides, 'Fingal's Cave' Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ...

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 ...

It is typical of Christian Tetzlaff's questing musical intelligence that he should choose to launch his new association with the label Ondine not with a conventional pairing of the Mendelssohn violin ...

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An exploration of personal and professional impact of the concerto written in 1844. With violinist Daniel Hope. From 2010. Show more Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal.