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From the Royal Albert Hall. The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ SO performs Mendelssohn's overture and incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Augusta Read Thomas's Violin Concerto No 3.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra performs Mendelssohn's magical overture that he wrote at the age of only 17, coupled with extracts from his later incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Augusta Read Thomas's new Violin Concerto No 3, subtitled Juggler in Paradise, is intended to suggest or invoke the image of the violin's role. The soloist plays a rhapsodic cadenza throughout, making a path through rich orchestral textures dominated by a pointillistic paradise of bell sounds.

Jennifer Koh (violin)
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and incidental music
Augusta Read Thomas: Violin Concerto No 3 - Juggler in Paradise (Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ co-commission).

55 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Sep 2009 19:30

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  • Wed 9 Sep 2009 19:30