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 ...

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 ...

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.

Anyone aspiring to be a concert violinist simply has to have this one in his or her repertoire. Nearly 150 years after its composition, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto remains one of the most regularly ...

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most loved and famous of all violin concertos. For this performance, virtuoso violinist Augustin Hadelich plays a 1744 Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin. Anton ...

Fifty Hollywood Bowl summers ago, Itzhak Perlman, 23 and already pegged to be the next great violinist, made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. To get an idea ...

Although Mendelssohn came from a Jewish family, he was raised as a Protestant, and his sacred music has played a big part in this “Reformation 500” year. The Symphony No 5, the “Reformation”, labours ...

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 Music ...

Lithuanian-born Julian Rachlin joins the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, under Sir Roger Norrington, for a performance of Mendelssohn's great Violin Concerto in E Minor.