He specialized in arranging for piano and voice the works of famous composers such as Gounod and Mendelssohn.
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He specialized in arranging for piano and voice the orchestral works of famous composers such as Gounod and Mendelssohn and theatre scores of other British composers, such as that of Jane Annie.
The organ has illustrious associations: Mendelssohn is believed to have given lessons to Caroline Attwood when he visited her elder brother George Attwood, then Rector.
Just after the war began, her conductor was imprisoned because Matković performed a concerto by Felix Mendelssohn, whose music was prohibited as non-Aryan.
To enlarge his guitar repertory, he soon began transcribing piano works of Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and others, and, no doubt, to make use of his considerable knowledge of keyboard music.
Herself an accomplished musician, she cultivated friendly relations with Mendelssohn and other composers and performers, including Jenny Lind.
Born in Hammersmith, London, she was the youngest of seven children of a civil servant; her mother was musically talented, a former student of Felix Mendelssohn.
In June 2012, Ms. Golub appeared as Hermia in the premiere of the Mariinsky Ballet production of George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a ballet based on Shakespeare's play with music by Felix Mendelssohn.
As another example, Felix Mendelssohn, the grandson of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, continued to identify himself as a Jew, even though he was baptized as a Reformed Christian at the age of seven.
He has performed a wide range of classical music from composers such as Mozart, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Lalo, Wieniawski, Dvorak, Sibelius and many more.
The St Cyprian's Cathedral Choir at this period performed such works as Messiah (Handel), Elijah (Mendelssohn) and Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
Louisa sang the mezzo recitatives in the first English performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah conducted by the composer.
In 1837 the publisher Alfred Novello gave Lucy Anderson exclusive rights for six months to play Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in England.
Every spring, they perform a major oratorio with professional soloists and orchestra, including most recently Mendelssohn's Elijah and Handel's Hercules.
It increased in size to 130 singers by the late 1940s, and its repertoire expanded to include Canadian folk songs as well as works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and others.
Felix Mendelssohn | Felix Frankfurter | Felix the Cat | Félix Guattari | Moses Mendelssohn | María Félix | Félix Trinidad | Felix Klein | Julie Felix | Felix Rodriguez | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Felix Da Housecat | José Félix Ribas Municipality, Aragua | Felix von Luckner | Felix Unger | Félix Rodríguez (Central Intelligence Agency) | Felix Magath | Félix Fénéon | Allyson Felix | Felix Werder | Felix the Cat: The Movie | Félix Resurrección Hidalgo | Felix Dzerzhinsky | Felix da Housecat | Felix Cavaliere | Rachel Félix | Mendelssohn's | Felix Silla | Félix Savón | Felix Nussbaum |
Adlam is known as a soloist for his performances of the concerti by Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Wieniawski, Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi.
Since 1991, the orchestra has performed the works of Beethoven, Bizet, Prokofiev, Lutosławski, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bernstein, Wagner, Brahms, Henze and more.
His 18 February 1882 performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and 15 December 1883 performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso were some of the earliest appearances of a Canadian musician with a major symphony orchestra in the United States.
As with Rabbit of Seville, the "Wedding March" by Mendelssohn plays in the underscore, as Bugs is carrying Elmer toward a cottage.
They regularly perform the works of contemporaries like Osvaldo Golijov, Gunther Schuller, Bruce Wolosoff, and Korine Fujiwara, as well as the works of classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Haydn and countless others.
Salaman adapted "He that Shall Endure to the End" from Mendelssohn's Elijah as a setting for Psalm 93 (Adonai Malakh), sung on most Friday nights in the sabbath eve service of the London Spanish & Portuguese Jewish community.
A member of the Emerson String Quartet since 1979, David has participated in over thirty acclaimed recordings produced with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, nine Grammy Awards (including two for best classical album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group), three Gramophone Awards, the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets in the world's musical capitals.
His repertoire includes more than 40 violin concertos by composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Wieniawski, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Sibelius, Karol Szymanowski, Khachaturian, Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and also music of Slovenian composers.
Over a number of years the Orchestra and Sinfonia gave many performances in Exeter Cathedral and other venues; these performances including the Mozart Requiem, the Mendelssohn Elijah, the Haydn Nelson Mass, the Vivaldi Gloria, the Fauré Requiem, and the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 performed for the Exeter Festival in 1985.
Among those who have such tombs of honor in Berlin are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bertolt Brecht, Wilhelm Busch, Theodor Fontane, Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Georg Ludwig Hartig, Heinrich von Kleist, Hildegard Knef, Otto Lilienthal, Herbert Marcuse Felix Mendelssohn, Marg Moll Helmut Newton, Ernst Reuter, Joachim Ringelnatz, Heinrich Zille and Arnold Zweig.
She has made over 55 recordings which include works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Alphons Diepenbrock, Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky, among others.
Lord Justice Eldon Bankes suggested that the Temple choir should make a record, and on 15 March 1927, the Gramophone Company brought its new mobile recording unit to the Temple Church where the choir recorded Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, in which the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove was sung by Ernest Lough, then aged 15.
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Ernest Arthur Lough (17 November 1911 - 22 February 2000) (pronounced Luf) was an English boy soprano who sang the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove from Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer for the Gramophone Company (later HMV and then EMI) in 1927.
In addition to his own works, he performed works by Frontini, Cali, Vincenzo Bellini, Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giuseppe Verdi, Felix Mendelssohn, and Pietro Mascagni.
The music was written by Jule Styne, adapted from Felix Mendelssohn’s Op. 62 No. 6, Allegretto grazioso in A major (Frühlingslied, or Spring Song) in Book 5 of Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words), with the lyrics by Frank Loesser.
Friedman's relatively few recordings, which have been collected by Naxos Records on five CDs, are widely admired, particularly his Chopin and his nine Songs Without Words by Mendelssohn.
It was also utilised by later composers, including Felix Mendelssohn (in his Reformation Symphony) and Richard Wagner (in his opera Parsifal).
The Los Angeles Electric 8 produces arrangements of older works for their ensemble including Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Franklin.
Felix Mendelssohn Concerto for violin and piano (with Susanne Lautenbacher, violin, and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Faerber, conductor) Turnabout QTV-S 34662
In 1948, his recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, with Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic, had the distinction of being the first catalogue item in Columbia's newly introduced long-playing twelve-inch 33 rpm vinyl records, Columbia ML 4001.
In 1844 he was offered the position, vacated by Felix Mendelssohn, of Kapellmeister at the Berlin Cathedral; but he did not reestablish himself in Berlin until the last year of his life.
The Jubilee season from November to June 2010-2011 got off to an excellent start with critically acclaimed performances of Mendelssohn's St Paul and Messiah in November and December respectively in Sheffield Cathedral.
He presented Mendelssohn’s Athalie in the Horticultural Gardens Pavilion, in what is now Allan Gardens.
Hagner's recordings include chamber works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Saint-Saëns (EMI Classics), the violin concerti by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, while her 2006 album, Ciaconna (Altara), includes Bach's Partita No. 2, Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin, and Hartmann's Suite for Solo Violin.
Among those impressed by Bennett was the German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who invited him to Leipzig, Germany.