Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony perform five diverse works, culminating in an affecting reading of Fauré’s pensive ...

"When they make music together ... so that when Mendelssohn's Elijah was commissioned and performed in Birmingham in 1846, the choral tradition was already well established.

14, at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Huntington. Mendelssohn (1809-1847), a German composer, wrote an original piece of music for a chamber orchestra when he was just 12 years old, and he wrote ...

Marian Wilson Kimber in the Recital Hall. “Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' is one of my absolute favorite pieces of choral music," CSIC's conductor, David Puderbaugh said. "This wonderful oratorio ...

Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' was commissioned by the Birmingham Music Festival for a first performance ... City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Choir. But the two of them are then joined ...

I am not better than my fathers.” Cracked, pained, occasionally rasping, rising to a fearsome roar then subsiding to a ...

It was William Cummings who, in 1855, ignored both their suggestions, put Wesley’s text with Mendelssohn’s music, and created one of the most joyful and beloved Christmas hymns.

There was a sense of a special occasion in the Ulster Hall on Friday evening when the Belfast Philharmonic Society marked the 150th anniversary of its formation in 1874 by performing Mendelssohn’s ...