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

A luxury Hampshire hotel is hosting an afternoon of classical music. On Sunday, March 2, Heckfield Place, near Hook, will ...

But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught her to play the piano and her brother was the composer Felix Mendelssohn ...

playing Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. Elsewhere, Tom begins a week-long celebration of Poland and the United States of America—classical music played in the concert halls of Warsaw and Santa Fe ...

Felix Mendelssohn ... on angels’ wings.” Mendelssohn put the Elijah project aside until June 1845, when he was commissioned to write “a new oratorio, or other music” for the 1846 ...

Felix Mendelssohn originally wrote the melody ... put Wesley’s text with Mendelssohn’s music, and created one of the most joyful and beloved Christmas hymns.

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...