A Scots writer has suggested a new link between the famous Felix Mendelssohn composition Hebrides Overture and the Scottish landmark which inspired it. Iain Thornber claims the work, also known as ...

The score, from 1832, is said never to have been sold and thus to be the last major manuscript of Mendelssohn to appear on the market. He gave it to his friend and pupil William Sterndale Bennett in ...

THE score of one of Felix Mendelssohn's most celebrated works, the Hebrides Overture, is set to fetch up to (pounds) 700,000 at auction. The composition, inspired by the sights and sounds of Mull, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Fingal’s Cave, the place that inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, painted by Thomas Moran in 1884 ...

Libor Pesek leads the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in music Felix Mendelssohn wrote about a spectacular natural formation, Fingal's Cave, on the Inner Hebrides Island of Scotland. Not surprisingly, ...

Scotland's Fingal's Cave is one of those sights that truly have to be seen to be believed. The naturally occurring cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa is formed by hexagonal basalt that look to ...

Felix Mendelssohn's The Hebrides was inspired by the composer's 1829 trip to the British Isles. His overture has now inspired collaboration between a Cambridge economist and a composer, using sound to ...

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