My absolute favourite violin concerto. That dramatic first movement with the gorgeous second theme. The most EXQUISITE second movement (when the violin hits the high C my heart just melts). The super joyful and fun third movement. The fact that each movement flows into the next. Please vote my boy Mendelssohn please my heart will be as happy as when it listens to this piece Recording: Hilary Hahn (YouTube link: https://youtu.be/SDwKJ6bBXEA?si=w7wQwK-NliQiCLVV). I travelled to another country just to hear her play this live. She is THAT GOOD 😍
-Buying records cheers me up... whenever I feel low, I buy some new records... I was so depressed today I bought Mendelssohn's Violin concerto, Brahms' Second piano concerto and Handel's Ode for Saint Cecilia's day...
On this antique postcard we see the German Composer, Pianist and Organist Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) and the birthplace in Hamburg.
In his short life he compose many hundreds of works and some of this are in the repertoire until today in the concert halls all over the world.
At least we have something in a different key at least.
Mendelssohn makes me want to throw myself off a cliff, but in a good way. Listen to those dark, flowing lines and tell me you're not moved to do some kind of arson?
I've finished seeding the brackets! The posts with the first few concerti will go up shortly. Please note that the bracket is seeded so that the most popular contestants will go up against the least popular contestants first, so please don't be upset if you feel that the matchup is "unfair" - that's intentional.
Brahms composed a double concerto for violin and cello. Bach for two violins. Other great composers also wrote double concertos too such as Mozart, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Bartok, Telemann, Vivaldi and Haydn. But a concerto for more than a single instrument and orchestra can still be seen as a special event due to the rarity of performances. For the adventurous composers (and performers) the…
#Vinyl long-playing records celebrate their 75th anniversary this year. The epicentre of the British vinyl collecting community is #Glasgow and the first LP featured Mendelsshon's Violin Concerto in E #records
In 1889 two competing recording formats emerged, the all-wax cylinder, used in Edison’s “Perfected Phonograph” and the Gramophone, the world’s first record player, patented by German-born US inventor, Emile Berliner. Both formats were able to reproduce about two minutes’ worth of professionally made pre-recorded songs, instrumentals, and monologues, and while the Phonograph allowed the owner to…