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Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Name: Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Start: 2024-08-16T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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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’...

Program

Richard Strauss - Salomé

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major

Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture

Participants

Anthony McGill

Clarinet

Gemma New

Conductor

NYCOS Chamber Choir

Chorus