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Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo with violinist Augustin Hadelich in Mendelssohn's E minor concerto. Plus music by Strauss, Stravinsky, and Anthony Davis.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo with violinist Augustin Hadelich in Mendelssohn's E minor concerto. Plus music by Strauss, Stravinsky, and Anthony Davis.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Igor Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

c.8.20pm
Interval: The figure of the prankster, who appears in both pieces following the interval, is explored by Seán Williams, Lecturer in German and European Cultural History at the University of Sheffield.

c.8.40pm
Anthony Davis: Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey (European premiere)
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Augustin Hadelich, violin
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Mischievous tricksters and magical fairy tales meet in a fantastical programme from Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Incorrigible troublemaker Till Eulenspiegel is up to no good in the witty, light-footed antics of Strauss’s tone-poem. A clever monkey faces off against a lion in the UK premiere of American composer Anthony Davis’s Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey and a nightingale must charm Death to spare the Emperor of China in Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale. At the heart of the programme is one of the great Romantic violin concertos: Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled masterpiece.

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2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Thu 24 Jul 2025 19:30

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Song Of The Nightingale

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto In E Minor Op.64

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich.
  • Anthony Davis

    Tales (Tails) Of The Signifying Monkey

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in C major D.760 (Wandererfantasie)

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Aaron Copland

    Letter from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Four Dances from Rodeo.
    • Naxos.
    • 006.

Broadcast

  • Thu 24 Jul 2025 19:30

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