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Symphony No. 1 Jörg Widmann, Conductor Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Irish Chamber Orchestra ad absurdum Sergei Nakariakov, Trumpet Jörg Widmann, Composer Irish Chamber Orchestra Symphony No. 4, ...

German clarinettist, conductor and composer Jörg Widmann was apparently born with enough energy for two people. He drives Mendelssohn’s music with a nervy energy that’s likely to keep you on the edge ...

It is not surprising these performances sound so alive. The concerts from which the live recordings are taken were breathtakingly vital. In the 15-year-old Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.1, a work racing ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title Mendelssohn in Birmingham refers to the composer’s historical links to the city, but is also a plain ...

Mendelssohn completed a dozen strings-only symphonies before, at the age of 15, he got around to his formal No 1. Jan Willem de Vriend here couples it with the Scottish, begun five years later and ...