His piano music showcases a Mendelssohn trademark –sounding as though written for three hands, Mendelssohn’s innate conservatism and disdain of chest-beating bravado is most strongly felt in his solo ...

The beauty of the composer’s piano trios is renewed in the hands of three virtuosos. By Edward Docx There is a wonderful and definitive new album of the two Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) piano trios ...

Take some sweeping passion and a bit of soaring ecstasy, add a dash of heart-rending despair, season with heaving breasts and sighing melodies, then mix it all together with impeccable elegance and ...

What seems at first glance a relatively straightforward Mendelssohn disc, played by the orchestra of which he was music director for the last 16 years of his life, and released to coincide with the ...

Immaculate performances of some of Mendelssohn's lesser-known but most interesting works. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 23 June 2014. Pianist Howard Shelley is one of the great interpreters early ...

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 ...

Two of the most celebrated trios in the repertory have power but also subtlety in Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk’s ego-free performances There’s something about the combination of piano, ...

Harriet Smith compares and recommends recordings of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 ...

These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging a recording career on Berlin Classics with repertoire ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Jan Lisiecki, Piano Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Variations sérieuses Jan Lisiecki, Piano Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Concerto for Piano ...