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Felix Mendelssohn artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
The Waleno Trio, featuring violinist Foster Wang, pianist Victoria Lee and cellist Anthony Sabatino, decided upon the unusual name by combining two letters of each of their last names — Wang, Lee and Sabatino — to form the word "waleno." The trio performs the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49, 1st. mvt.
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Commentator Rob Kapilow unfolds the opening, fugue-like layers of Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, revealing the most fantastic 40 seconds ever written by a 16-year-old.
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Mendelssohn was born 200 years ago Tuesday. Although the composer is sometimes criticized for "peaking early," critic Ted Libbey points to Mendelssohn's long-lasting legacy. Hear the composer's "Scottish Symphony," an essential recording in the NPR Classical 50.
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For her new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mutter traveled to the composer's old stomping ground in Leipzig, Germany, to the site where the concerto had its premiere in 1845.
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With its regal blast of trumpets and its hummable tune, Felix Mendelssohn's popular "Wedding March" experienced its first taste of wedding fame at the nuptials of princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise 150 years ago.
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Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler were both born on Feb. 2 — Kreisler in 1875 and Heifetz in 1901. But the men share more than just a birthday. Music commentator Miles Hoffman discusses the two fiddlers and how they each set new standards for the art of playing the violin.
()Felix Mendelssohn was born 200 years ago Tuesday. Though he was one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic period, 270 of his works remained unpublished until recent years. These lost compositions are now coming to light through The Mendelssohn Project.
()A New York string quartet does the work of two music groups. Hear Joel Rose of Philadelphia member station WHYY.
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NPR's Fred Child takes the stage with the young Jupiter Quartet: violinists Meg Freivogel and Nelson Lee, Liz Freivogel (Meg's sister) on viola and Daniel McDonough on cello. They discuss and perform music by Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn.
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