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20/01/2009

Petroc Trelawny presents the Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Ravel and Saint-Saens. Plus British chamber music from New York's Alice Tully Hall.

Petroc Trelwany presents a performance given at Glasgow's City Halls, the first of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Mendelssohn bicentenary celebrations which puts the composer in the company of others who inspired him and those he himself influenced.

Two youthful works bookend this concert: Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most celebrated pieces by a teenager; Saint-Saens' Symphony in A was a 15-year-old's ambitious attempt at a serious Teutonic-style symphony. In between, soprano Kate Royal sings Berlioz's song-cycle.

Kate Royal (soprano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Overture (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
Saint-Saens: Symphony in A

Followed by British Chamber music performed at New York's Alice Tully Hall:

Stephen Taylor (oboe)
Orion String Quartet

Bliss: Quintet

Delius: Sonata for violin and piano no.3
Ann-Marie McDermott (piano)
Paul Neubauer (violin)

Copland: Lincoln portrait for speaker and orchestra
Willard White (bass)
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Carl Davis (conductor)

2 hours, 15 minutes

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Tue 20 Jan 2009 19:00

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  • Tue 20 Jan 2009 19:00