Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Mendelssohn Chamber Music - Episode 1

Penny Gore presents part of a series of concerts in which the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment perform some of Mendelssohn's best-loved chamber music for wind and strings at St George's, Bristol. For Radio 3's Mendelssohn anniversary celebrations. Including one of the composer's most popular works - the Octet for strings in E flat - written when he was only 16, yet widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of string repertoire. Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment: Matthew Truscott, Margaret Faultless, Alison Bury, Ken Aiso (violins) Tom Dunn, Nicholas Logie (violas) Richard Tunnicliffe, Robin Michael (cello) Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass) Rossini: String Sonata No 3 in C; Duetto for cello and double bass Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat for strings, Op 20.