Performances of Felix Mendelssohn at BBC Proms
(See all works in BBC Proms by Felix Mendelssohn)Fri 18 Jul 2025
- 18:45Royal Albert Hall
The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
Programme
- Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
- Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
- Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
- interval
- The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Sancta civitas(30 mins)
Performers
- Lisa Batiashviliviolin
- Caspar Singhtenor
- Gerald Finleybass-baritone
- London Youth Choirs(members from)
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Thu 24 Jul 2025
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel
Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel
Programme
- Song of the Nightingale(21 mins)
- Violin Concerto in E minor(26 mins)
- interval
- Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey(15 mins)European premiere
- Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks(15 mins)
Performers
- Augustin Hadelichviolin
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Sat 26 Jul 2025
- 19:30The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia present Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony, replete with dances, fanfares and hymns. With David Fray as soloist, the dark beauty of Bach’s D minor Keyboard Concerto offers a stark contrast
Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia present Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony, replete with dances, fanfares and hymns. With David Fray as soloist, the dark beauty of Bach’s D minor Keyboard Concerto offers a stark contrast
Programme
- Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052(22 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, ‘Lobgesang’(63 mins)
Performers
- Hera Hyesang Parksoprano
- Adèle Charvetmezzo-soprano
- Benjamin Huletttenor
- David Fraypiano
- Dinis Sousaconductor
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