Claudio Arrau Plays Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso 

Felix Mendelssohn Music on CD 

Mendelssohn: Greatest Hits

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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (complete) / Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures

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Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor (Violinist: Janine Jansen) 

Program Notes on Famous Mendelssohn Works 

Symphony No 3, in A Minor ("Scotch") (Mendelssohn)

Mendelssohn, then in his twentieth year, paid his first visit to England. After remaining in London two months he went to Scotland, arriving in Edinburgh July 28; the next day he heard a competition of the Highland pipers, which, it may well be imagined, gave him a good idea of the national melodies. The next day he visited Holyrood. He wrote down on the spot the first sixteen bars of the introduction, announcing the theme which not only opens but closes the movements and thus gives an unmistakable clue to its meaning...

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Symphony No 4, in A ("Italian") (Mendelssohn)

Like the A minor Symphony, the A major gets its familiar name from the composer himself, how always styles it the "Italian" in his letters. The first movement, Allegro vivace, reflects as clearly the blue skies, clears air, brightness, and joyousness of Italy ...

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Recommended Felix Mendelssohn Resources 

Felix Mendelssohn

Life and works of Felix Mendelssohn (article by William Smythe Rockstro, pianist and musical composer; author of A General History of Music from the Infancy of the Greek Drama to the Present Period and other works on the history of music).

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