Hamburger Camerata / Severin von Eckardstein

Described as the crowning achievement of his oeuvre, Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein once rhapsodized that this »late work« stands »at the gates of heaven, before the threshold of eternity«. Severin von Eckardstein, the evening’s soloist, then takes the audience on a journey of his own – alone at the piano – as he evokes the memories Felix Mendelssohn brought back from a trip through Wales. And once more, this solo tension gives way to collective harmony: in Mendelssohn’s precocious Symphony No. 8, written in his youth, the strings and winds of the Hamburg Camerata come together in a consummate synthesis.