#mendelssohn

[ follow ]
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Mahler Symphonies 19 album review Bychkov's set earns a place in a starry pantheon

The Sixth is one of the hardest symphonies to tame. Bychkov leans into the contrasts, the Alma theme glowing with inner fire and a slow movement that shimmers like a limpid Austrian lake.
Berlin music
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Why Bach's music is indestructible, whether on the mandolin, modern piano or soundtracking murder

Bach's music dominates Easter performances, showcasing its emotional depth and resilience through various interpretations.
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Sounds of Latin America: A Violin and Piano Journey

Pianist Dr. Gabriela Calderón and violinist Dr. Catalina Barraza celebrate the rich musical heritage of Latin America.
SF music
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios album review Andris Nelsons' prodigious talent on full display

Andris Nelsons' box set with the Gewandhaus Orchestra showcases his talent through dynamic performances of Mendelssohn's symphonies and oratorios.
Music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

The effusion of difficult emotion: Newport Symphony performs Higdon, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky * Oregon ArtsWatch

Newport Symphony Orchestra's final season concert features Shakespeare-inspired music performed March 21-22 with poet Frank Oden and works by Nicolai, Korngold, Verdi, Kellogg, and Bernstein.
Berlin music
fromGothamist
4 weeks ago

Mozart's childhood violin and original manuscripts come to the Morgan Library

Mozart's personal belongings, including the clavichord used to compose 'The Magic Flute' and his childhood violin, are exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan for the first time in the United States.
Berlin music
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

"The Three B's" Bach, Beethoven, Brahms

A chorale performs classical German compositions by Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms with orchestra and soloists at two Bay Area churches on March 21-22.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Elisabeth Leonskaja review piano legend's unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships

The Austrian pianist's expressive, emotional playing may grab the headlines, but it's the unerring sense of underlying architecture that's the thread through her long career. We heard that here, not just within each of the works, but in the shared foundations, and sometimes secret connecting passages, she revealed between them.
Berlin music
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review revelatory readings from the late revolutionary

Harnoncourt's 1999 Styriarte recording reveals his revolutionary approach through a provocative pairing of Wagner with Mendelssohn and Schumann, emphasizing historical clarity and emotional depth.
#baroque
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

My cultural awakening: Bach helped me survive sexual abuse as a child

Bach's Chaconne became an emotional refuge that helped a sexually abused child cope and ultimately inspired a lifelong return to piano.
#classical-music
Music
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

School's pipe organ 'one of rarest in Europe'

Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith houses a rare Hippolyte Loret pipe organ smuggled from Paris in 1904 and now needs over £250,000 for restoration.
Music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Helmuth Rilling, longtime leader of the Oregon Bach Festival, dies at age 92 * Oregon ArtsWatch

Helmuth Rilling, renowned interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach and co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival, died Feb. 11, 2026, in Leonberg at age 92.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Havergal Brian: The Gothic album review Ole Schmidt tames a vast, eccentric score

Ole Schmidt's 1980 BBC performance of Havergal Brian's The Gothic delivers a bold, conductor-driven interpretation with vast forces, occasional congestion, and a standout soprano.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

LPO/Jurowski review Mahler's 10th is full of colour, and the composer's pain, in Barshai's completion

Barshai's colourful completion of Mahler's Tenth, conducted by Jurowski, delivers bold orchestration and vivid playing that contrasts Cooke's restrained version.
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Unfinished Mozart manuscript going on display in Mayfair museum

The sheet is modest in size but immense in significance. Carefully inked across the page are the opening 20 bars of a fugue - not Mozart's own invention, but his transcription of a harpsichord work by George Frideric Handel, composed more than sixty years earlier. Mozart was 26 when he set to work on it in 1782-83, transforming Handel's keyboard fugue into the beginnings of a string quartet arrangement.
Music
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between high' and low' music

Max Richter's celebrated composition 'On the Nature of Daylight' and his Hamnet score have driven major recognition, awards attention, and wide cultural ubiquity.
Music
fromTNW | Music
2 months ago

Can AI replace the humanity of Classical Music?

AI can analyze compositional style and complete unfinished works, prompting questions about whether technology can replicate human sensitivity and emotional interpretation in classical music.
[ Load more ]