Operatic voices reverberate throughout a quaint bar on North Mississippi Avenue — a typical Tuesday night for the musical regulars that frequent Mendelssohn’s, Portland’s one-of-a-kind classical music ...

Previewing the second Classical Remix Music Festival, where the concerts seek to score with concertgoers by emphasizing accessibility.

When I was a lad, not yet in my teens, I made my debut on stage, playing the part of Bottom the weaver in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We didn’t put on the whole thing, just the final act, ...

The concept of this little festival is very simple: young musicians at the start of their professional lives gather on the Hebridean island off Scotland’s Argyll coast, to make music with highly ...

A new digital station plays only music written by women. Stephen Moss finds treasures as well as tedium, but wishes Scala’s classical channel could be bolder At 10am last Thursday, Women Composers ...

Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 when he was just 20 years of age. He didn’t care for the local music, but his visit there at the start of his celebrated "Grand Tour" of Europe resulted in two of ...

That Mendelssohn wrote five symphonies is widely known, though I'd wager that 99% of listeners only know 40% of them. Begin with the rarely-played Symphony No. 1, written when Mendelssohn was 14.

The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...

With installment 51 in their Romantic Piano Concerto series, the Hyperion label has turned over yet another damp rock, and look what's popped up! Concertos by German composers Wilhelm Taubert and ...