Classical Music : Happy Birthday Felix Mendelssohn.
Re: Happy Birthday Felix Mendelssohn.
Best violin concerto ever?
Hmmm. Yeah, maybe, since Beethoven's violin concerto, like all Beethoven's concertos, seems to me like something by a symphonist who has no feeling for how to write concertos, but is such a genius that it comes out a supreme masterpiece anyway. So setting aside Beethoven, maybe we can say Mendelssohn's forms a trinity with Brahms' and Tchaikovksy's?
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Re: Happy Birthday Felix Mendelssohn.
There are more octets in the canon, one of my favourites being the one in F by Niels Gade. I have that on a CD with the Mendelssohn one, and they make a good pairing.
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Happy Birthday Felix Mendelssohn.
One of the greatest.