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Felix Mendelssohn

  • #ClassicsaDay #November11 Weeks 4 & 5

    Nov 26th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #November11, Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, George Enescu, Gerald Finzi, Norbert Burgmüller, Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Twitter

    November is the eleventh month. And so the Classics a Day team opted to make eleven the month’s then. The challenge is to post works that are numbered 11 in some fashion, either an opus number, a series number, or even a suite number. It turns out that there’s a lot of great music associated […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #OctoberOctet Week 1

    Oct 15th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #OctoberOctet, Classical music, Dmitri Shostakovich, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Krommer, Max Bruch, Nikolay Afanasyev, Twitter

    The Classics a Day team decided October was the month to feature octets. Granted, it is the tenth month of the year, but the word “detects” isn’t as alliterative. The mix of instruments that make up an octet varies.  Some composers wrote for double string quartet, some for wind instruments, and some for a blend […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 1

    Dec 4th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalChristmas, #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Kuhnau, Twitter, William Billings

    For the past four years, the #ClassicsaDay team has adopted  Classical Christmas as its theme for December. And why not? We have a rich body of music related to the season dating back to the Middle Ages. A good deal of it is religious, but not all — many works are simply inspired by the […]

  • Solomiya Ivakhiv Double Concerto Project spans labels

    Mar 30th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Brilliant Classics, CD Review, Centaur, Classical music, Concerto, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Romantic period, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Solomiya Ivakhiv, Theodore Kuchar

    This is something unusual — a recording series spread across different labels. Violinist Solmiya Ivakhiv and pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi wanted to record the double concertos of Haydn and Mendelssohn. While preparing, they discovered two other neglected works. Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a contemporary of Haydn, had also written a double concerto for violin and piano. And […]

  • Charlottesville Symphony concert just misses the mark

    Nov 18th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Anton Bruckner, Ben, Ben Wager, benjamin rous, Brenda Patterson, charlottesville symphony orchestra, Classical music, Concert Review, Felix Mendelssohn, Jamison Walker, Jessie Montgomery, Katy Ambrose, Michael Slon, Pamela Beasley, Richard Strauss, UVA University Singers

    One phrase characterizes my impression of the Charlottesville Symphony’s November 16th concert: “it was great, except for…” The program itself, “Romantic Titans” was first-rate. The first half of the program featured two orchestral works; the second two large-scale choral works. Maestro Benjamin Rouse freely admitted “Caught by the Wind” was something of an outliner. Composer […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalEleven Week 1

    Nov 8th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Alan Hovhaness, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, Giovanni Punto, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Twitter

    Numbers have meaning. But meaning can depend on context. The Classics a Day team made “eleven” the theme for November, the eleventh month. The challenge is to post performances of classical music that involve the number. I chose a mix. Some pieces involve eleven players. Some are the eleventh type of piece by a composer. […]

  • Marcy Rosen’s Mendelssohn album welcome reissue

    Sep 25th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Felix Mendelssohn, Lydia Artymiw, Marcy Rosen, Romantic period

    Felix Mendelssohn didn’t write many pieces for cello and piano. Most of them were composed for his younger brother, an amateur cellist (and professional banker). Judging by the complexity of the two cello sonatas, Paul Mendelssohn must have been a very accomplished amateur. The Sonata No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 48 is a large, three-movement […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #SummerClassics Weeks 1 and 2

    Aug 9th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalSummer, #ClassicsaDay, Anon. 13th C., Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Joseph Suk, Philippe Chamouard, Sigismond Thalberg, Twitter

    It was a busy summer for the Classics a Day team. In June, we marked African-American Music Appreciation Month. In July we celebrated national holidays in the U.S. and  Canada. So that just left August to have a summer theme. For my part, I chose to choose anything except Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” In the process, […]

  • Charlottesville Symphony Thrill with Bartok and Mendelssohn

    Mar 25th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, benjamin rous, charlottesville symphony, Classical music, Concerto, Felix Mendelssohn

    Bela Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 is a challenging work for both soloist and ensemble. Audiences were treated to a fine performance by violinist Joseph Lin, maestro Benjamin Rous, and the Charlottesville Symphony March 23 and 24th, 2019. Lin possessed all the technical ability necessary for this difficult piece. He played with a clean, pure […]

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