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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most frequently performed works in the repertoire, so most violinists might have to consider how to make it fresh for audiences. Violinist Geneva ...

The Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been signed to the Sony Classical label – and his first UK release is an outstanding one. Winner of both the Sibelius and Paganini violin competitions, Kavakos ...

I’M tempted to have an open-hearted rave-up about the latest disc (Volume Four) in Chandos’ Mendelssohn in Birmingham series, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edward Gardner ...

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.

Sometimes you really want to belt out a great passage of your favourite concerto. Great! But what if it's a summer's afternoon and you don't have an orchestra immediately to hand? That's no problem ...

I'm currently based in Brussels, and this will be my first visit to Malta, so I'm really looking forward to being there and performing with the MPO! You will be performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin ...

Stephen Johnson explores Mendelssohn's rarely heard Concerto for violin and piano to examine how the composer was already racing from being a child prodigy to an incipient genius. Show more ...