The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...

Da Camera presents Mendelssohn Portrait, featuring the Daedalus Quartet and Brentano Quartet. The virtual concert includes a newly commissioned performance by the Brentano Quartet of two rarely-heard ...

Everyone who knows the MendelssohnOctet knows these three things about it: 1) It is a work of genius, 2) written by a brilliant teenager, 3) that is tremendously gratifying to hear. One cannot help ...

Russian pianist Polina Leschenko stars alongside Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in sparkling concertos by Chopin and Górecki. The ACO play the much-loved Mendelssohn Octet and ...

Donald Macleod places the teenage Mendelssohn’s exceptional talent in music alongside his abilities as a keen amateur landscape artist, including extracts from his youthful Octet and Concerto in D ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...