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NEW YORK — The world is getting a musical present for Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday — the first performances of 13 long-lost works of the German composer. The compositions were among 270 ...

Yet whatever Mendelssohn’s skills as an executant prodigy, it was his creative ability that inspired the greatest astonishment amongst his growing band of admirers, which included the 70-year-old ...

Given history's vagaries, even a long-dead composer's "complete" works are not necessarily complete, not with possible discoveries still lurking in libraries and archives. R. Larry Todd knows this, ...

These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging a recording career on Berlin Classics with repertoire ...

Kristian Bezuidenhout is about to rock your world. Maybe that statement sounds a bit too hyperbolic — but once you hear this South African-born fortepianist play, you'll instantly forget whatever ...