Both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn were precocious children who revealed their musical talent early on. Their family fostered their skills; both received piano and counterpoint instruction. Felix was ...

Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss Fingal's Cave by Mendelssohn ...

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 ...

As rain showers and warmer weather bring in the spring season, the Spokane Symphony will be doing the same with Masterworks 7: Primavera.

On Sunday, the Parker Quartet performs Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet (Op. 12) in Harvard University’s Paine Hall. Composed in 1829, the quartet has acquired a bit of romantic lore: Mendelssohn ...

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 ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

In 1829 Felix Mendelssohn visited the Hebrides, a group of islands off the coast of Scotland. This trip inspired him to write his famous “Hebrides Overture”. Now, two Cambridge academics have adapted ...

Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. The New York Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher ...

THE letters of a musician are often singularly interesting, because one approaches his mind in a novel way ; and in this familiar correspondence 1 the impression which Mendelssohn gives of himself is ...

It's an hour of sisters and brothers on Performance Today. We'll start with two exceptionally close siblings, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn. When Fanny was young, she aspired to be a professional ...