Performances of Felix Mendelssohn at BBC Symphony Orchestra
(See all works in BBC Symphony Orchestra by Felix Mendelssohn)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
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
