Performance on 3 - 13/07/2009

From the 2009 Cheltenham Festival, a programme of music featuring the talented young professionals of today and of the future. Orchestra Europa is a fledgling orchestra, set up by its young conductor Scott Ellaway to bring together the best conservatoire graduates before they find permanent positions in established orchestras across Europe. They perform Schubert's final Symphony, and music by Mendelssohn, a composer who was always interested in his musical forbears, and who conducted the first performance of Schubert's Ninth Symphony ten years after his death. They are joined by Nicola Benedetti, who is soloist in one of the favourites of the violin repertoire, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Orchestra Europa Scott Ellaway (conductor) Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Overture Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Schubert: Symphony No 9 Followed by highlights from a BBC Proms concert given by the Berlin Academy of Ancient Music in 2005. Bach: Suite no.4 BWV1069 Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin Handel: Rinaldo Act 1 Sc 6 - Scherzano sul tuo volto [Almirena, Rinaldo] Maria Christina Kiehr (soprano) Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor) Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin