Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Julia Fischer / David Afkham
Please note the change of artist and programme
Goosebumps with Mendelssohn
Conductor Christian Thielemann has had to pull out of his concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in the Elbphilharmonie at short notice due to a persistent shoulder issue. Fortunately, David Afkham has agreed to stand in for him. This change in conductor has also resulted in a change in the programme: Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony will now be performed, rather than his Fifth. Tickets remain valid.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is known, for good reason, as one of the most important composers of his age. There’s no telling what he might have composed had he not died at such a young age. But despite his short life of just 38 years, he still left a substantial body of work.
Three of his best-known and most popular compositions now feature in this concert: The sound painting »Hebrides« Overture takes us to the Scottish coastline, his great Violin Concerto is just as stirring as it is captivating, and his »Scottish« Symphony, as the programme’s grand finale, closes the circle begun with the opening work. In both the »Hebrides« Overture and the elegiacal »Scottish« Symphony, Mendelssohn was processing impressions from a journey in the Scottish Highlands.
Performers
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Julia Fischer violin
conductor David Afkham
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
The Hebrides or Fingal’s Cave / concert overture in B minor, Op. 26
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64
– Interval –
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 »Scottish«
Encore:
Franz Schubert
Entracte III / Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern D 797
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