As pianist and scholar Charles Rosen put it simply, Felix Mendelssohn "was the greatest prodigy the history of music has ever known." He was fully formed as a composer by age 16, when he wrote his Op.

Every composer takes his or her inspiration from those who came before. That point was demonstrated with eloquence and considerable drama in the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra”s performance of ...

This year, the Corona del Mar Baroque Music Festival is hanging its hat on the 350th birthday of Purcell and the 200th birthday of Mendelssohn. Anything for a party. Wednesday night these two ...

Two annual classical Christmas programs light up the holidays in the New Orleans area this weekend. Works by Bach, Handel, Corelli and Mendelssohn will be performed by the Louisiana Philharmonic ...

Mendelssohn, Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 (Harmonia Mundi). Mendelssohn in Birmingham Vol. 4. It has been a few years since the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra strayed beyond the period that inspired its ...

There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, ...