It’s not common for 16-year-olds to compose a perfect masterpiece, but Felix Mendelssohn did exactly that with his String Octet of 1825. Saturday evening at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts ...

Max Bruch's Octet is the curiosity here. It was one of his last works, composed in 1920, just a few months before he died. Scored for four violins, two violas, cello and bass rather than the double ...

The Elias and Emmeline Quartets string quartets let us inside their Manchester rehearsals for a performance of Mendelssohn's amazing Octet. Show more The Elias Quartet join forces with the Emmeline ...

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...

The longstanding and excellent Borromeo String Quartet returns to Vermont this weekend. And this time, the foursome will bring along a newer quartet: Gioviale, an award-winning student ensemble at the ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

An exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has had on different people's lives, demonstrating the healing power of music in a variety of situations around the world. Felix Mendelssohn wrote ...

The arrival of new cellist Brook Speltz has done little to change the rich, warm and vital sound of the Escher String Quartet in the middle of their Mendelssohn cycle. Their June release of Quartets 1 ...