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 ...

Mendelssohn's piano music has been largely overshadowed by the other greats of the 19th century, so it's good to see Howard Shelley embarking on a six-volume reappraisal of these works, so often seen ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Oleg Marshev, Piano David Porcelijn, Conductor Serenade and Allegro giocoso Oleg Marshev, Piano ...

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 ...

Take some sweeping passion and a bit of soaring ecstasy, add a dash of heart-rending despair, season with heaving breasts and sighing melodies, then mix it all together with impeccable elegance and ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

Howard Shelley has been on a winning streak with his Mendelssohn odyssey and the penultimate volume lives up to previous ones in every respect. There are a directness, selflessness and unaffected ...

What seems at first glance a relatively straightforward Mendelssohn disc, played by the orchestra of which he was music director for the last 16 years of his life, and released to coincide with the ...

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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn was still alive when the New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842. “He most certainly influenced our orchestra from its inception,” Philharmonic archivist Barbara Haws told the ...