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Andrew Mellor compares recordings of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5, the ‘Reformation’. It was written to mark the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession in 1530 ...

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

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...

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 his first symphony designed for a full orchestra to ...

The concert also features “Fantaisie pastorale hongroise” (“Hungarian Pastorale Fantasy”) by Franz Doppler (1821-1883), for solo flute with orchestra. Doppler, who was a flutist and conductor, was a ...

as well as other pieces that celebrate Scotland– Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, his “Scottish Symphony” and traditional Scottish songs based on poems by Robert Burns. The soloists for ...