Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...
Although best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of considerable merit in her own right. A child prodigy like her brother, Hensel...
Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bachs St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accuse...
This standard work of the cello literature has been extracted from volume II of the Complete Works for Violoncello and Pianoforte (BA9096 and BA9097) which was published in 2016. Mendelssohn scholar R...
> Urtext edition containing all of Mendelssohn's works for violoncello and piano (2 volumes: BA 9096/BA 9097) > Also includes reconstructions or completions of Mendelssohn's unfinished works for violo...
Goethes dramatische Ballade Die erste Walpurgisnacht inspirierte Mendelssohn zu einer großartigen und plastischen Darstellung des Konfliktes zwischen einer alten heidnischen Gemeinschaft und den neuen...
Mendelssohns Violinkonzert op. 64 ist ein zentrales Werk des 19. Jahrhunderts, das zum einen noch dem klassischen Stil eines Beethoven verbunden ist, zum anderen aber auch den Weg zum romantischen Aus...
