Musicon / Mendelssohn / Maag conducts the Symphonies of Mendelssohn
Peter Maag’s recordings of Mendelssohn’s symphonies (1997-2000) are among his latest (he died in 2001) and finest. In fact, it is difficult to find a good performance of these symphonies (Bruggen offers another nice choice). Maag is careful and interested, revealing all the details, ::More
Musicon / Mendelssohn / Musical education / Mendelssohn : Words can not go where music goes
A young poet who had given titles to a number of the Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words,” and incorporated what he conceived to be their sentiments in a set of poems, sent his work to Mendelssohn with the request that the composer inform the writer whether or not he had ::More
Musicon / Mendelssohn / Mendelssohn – He went on writing music until he suffered a fatal series of strokes
According to Goethe, Mendelssohn bore “the same relation to the little Mozart that the perfect speech of a grown man does to the prattle of a child.” Even if Goethe got a bit carried away, his enthusiasm is understandable. Mendelssohn began composing at the age of ten, and within a year or ::More
