Rachmaninoff wanted to recreate the world as it once was. He was the last of the great Romantic composers. Fortunately, there are still pianists and conductors and listeners and critics such as Fiona ...

From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of music. Although he only lived to 38, Mendelssohn left behind a remarkable ...

Baird was called the most outstanding lyrical and romantic composer of the period and admitted he was close to the music of Alban Berg and the aesthetics of Dimitri Shostakovich's late work. Bogusław ...

A chalk on paper study of the influential Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn as a child has sold at auction for £34,040, ...

Romantic music developed directly from the ... For example Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture" was inspired by the composer's trip to the island of Staffa. As you listen to Rachmaninoff's 'Piano ...