Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’

06/02/2016 46 min

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Episode Synopsis

Andrew Mellor compares recordings of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5, the ‘Reformation’. It was written to mark the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession in 1530, a critical event of the Protestant Reformation