Performance on 3 - 20/01/2009

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) BBC Concert Orchestra Carl Davis (conductor)