Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at two separate times. He was only 17 years old when he wrote the ‘Overture’ (Op. 21) in 1826 and he ...

Mendelssohn’s religious music is significant in terms of his own output, but from a modern viewpoint it seems impossibly embedded in the equally solid rock of Christian belief and 19th-century choral ...

This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta Urmana Ten years on from his death, this newly ...

While the story is a complicated Old Testament plot, Mendelssohn’s music captures the tone of the tragedy with delight, whimsy, and severity. Conductor Helmuth Rilling leads the three female soloists, ...

Mendelssohn’s ‘rediscovery’ of Bach is usually identified with his Berlin performances of the St Matthew Passion in 1829, but this disc begins and ends with his Magnificat and Gloria of 1822, in which ...

An Interview between Jessica Duchen and R. Larry Todd. R. Larry Todd is the author of the definitive biography Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. He is Arts and Sciences Professor of Music at Duke ...

From the archive, 24 April 1847: A ‘fatigued’ Mendelssohn gives an intimate organ recital to a large audience in Manchester See also: Tom Service on Mendelssohn Considerable curiosity and interest ...

Mendelssohn was the only musical prodigy of the 19th century whose stature could rival that of Mozart. Still, his parents resisted any entrepreneurial impulses and spared young Felix the strange, ...

Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 when he was just 20 years of age. He didn’t care for the local music, but his visit there at the start of his celebrated "Grand Tour" of Europe resulted in two of ...

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