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 ...

Vibrant performances of works by the Mendelssohns prove Fanny’s chamber music can stand up alongside any of the period Is it time for Fanny Mendelssohn’s music to become consciously uncoupled from ...

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 ...

Friday morning a small but enthusiastic audience at Kleinhans Music Hall heard the first of two performances in this weekend’s “Majestic Mendelssohn” concert. A childhood prodigy himself, that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The idea behind Shelley’s projected six-volume survey is to promote a reassessment of what has hitherto been one of ...

The Mendelssohn siblings’ chamber music is vital and fierce on this release by cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Alasdair Beatson (Pentatone) The Mendelssohn siblings have suffered from their twin ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Such are the quirks of popular taste that Mendelssohn’s two cello sonatas, the main works in this engaging ...

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 ...

(3) Fantaisies (or caprices) Doomin Kim, Piano Felix Mendelssohn, Composer (2) Klavierstücke Doomin Kim, Piano Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Kinderstücke, 'Christmas Pieces' Doomin Kim, Piano Felix ...

Mendelssohn: Piano Trios No 1 and 2 The Florestan Trio Hyperion CDA67485, £12·99 With its glorious opening cello theme, the D minor Trio No 1 – the work that prompted Schumann to dub Mendelssohn “the ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Stewart Goodyear, Piano BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Andrew Constantine, Conductor Rhapsody Stewart Goodyear, Piano BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Andrew ...