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BBC.Proms.2024.Prom 36 Mozart and Mendelssohns A Midsummer Nights Dream

Royal Albert Hall, London UK
Friday 16 August 2024


In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the play and, another 17 years later, augmented it with yet more scene-setting music – the most enchanting and characterful he would write.

Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s story – performed with readings from the play for dramatic context – after equally colourful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.


Programme

Bonis: Salomé 4’
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major 25’

Interval

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music 60’

Moyo Akandé actor
Ewan Black actor
Anthony McGill clarinet
NYCOS Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Victoria Newlyn Stage Director
Gemma New conductor


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