It’s not common for 16-year-olds to compose a perfect masterpiece, but Felix Mendelssohn did exactly that with his String Octet of 1825. Saturday evening at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts ...

Complete Information About Mendelssohn Octet with Miró Quartet + Isidore String Quartet in Atlanta at Spivey Hall. With the Miró Quartet’s seasoned artistry and the Isidore Quartet’s fresh dynamism, ...

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...

Experience the Mendelssohn Octet live at the free Chamber Classics event in Cape Girardeau on Dec. 1, hosted by the Southeast Symphony Society and the Kellerman Foundation. The Southeast Symphony ...

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 ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...

The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...

(4) Pieces for String Quartet Manderling Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Octet for strings Manderling Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Cremona Quartet The Mandelring capture well the bustling ...

Enescu wasn’t sure that his massive String Octet of 1900 was a chamber work at all. He was happy for it to be performed by larger forces, and when you listen to this recording from the Queen Elisabeth ...