Building a Library 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, a ...
With classical statues, red carpeting, golden lighting, and beautiful architecture, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed against a setting of grandeur last weekend, amplified by the buzzing energy ...
When Martin Luther nailed his thesis to the church door in Wittenberg, he could not have done it with more zeal than John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra brought to their performance ...
Mendelssohn was captivated by Scotland’s wild beauty, and he poured it into his Scottish Symphony. It’s music full of misty landscapes, ancient ruins, and stirring energy. Let Mendelssohn take you ...
Mention Mendelssohn and all manner of magical music comes to mind, none more so than the soundtrack he composed to accompany a Prussian royal command performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's ...
The Cleveland Orchestra’s winter and spring schedule spans centuries of music and has something for everyone. Our friends at ...
The Symphony! Music Presentation and Lecture Series at the Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland, starts at 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, with a talk on Mendelssohn Symphony 5. Also ...
Mendelssohn's Symphony No 2 is in fact a symphony-cantata, three orchestral movements followed by a nine-movement cantata, commissioned for the 400th anniversary of the printing press, and using ...
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