Felix Mendelssohn and Jörg Widmann

Hear Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture In this concert we hear Jörg Widmann's distinctive arrangements of the music of his musical hero Felix Mendelssohn. We get an unexpected dialogue across time, from the dreamy andante movement he played as a child to an ironic paraphrase on the wedding march. Together with Mendelssohn's majestic nature painting from Fingal's Cave and the powerful Reformation Symphony, it becomes an evening where respect and innovation go hand in hand. There is something enticing about the idea of a dialogue across time. When the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann picks up Mendelssohn's music and reworks it, he plays with it and sets it in new contexts. In this concert we meet Widmann's music side by side with Mendelssohn's, and discover how two composers talk to each other across almost two hundred years. Programme: Felix Mendelssohn: Andante (arr. Jörg Widmann) Jörg Widmann: Paraphrase über Mendelssohns Hochzeitsmarsch Felix Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Jörg Widmann: Danse macabre für Orchester Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, "Reformation" Performers: Jörg Widmann, conductor Sarah Christian, violin

• Jörg Widmann
• Sarah Christian

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Felix Mendelssohn: Hebridene, op. 26 (overtyre)

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