Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, María Dueñas

With this all-Mendelssohn programme, Christian Thielemann continues his exploration of the music of this central protagonist of the ‘Romantic generation’ and European music history.

After the 2nd Piano Concerto, played by Igor Levit, was performed at his inaugural concert last October, the young Spanish violinist María Dueñas will now be the soloist in another instrumental concerto by Mendelssohn.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is connected to Berlin in many ways.

Exactly 200 years ago, the Mendelssohns moved into their property at Leipziger Strasse 3, where the ‘Sunday Music’ organised by the family became a magnet for the music scene. It was in Berlin that he developed into a composer, pianist and conductor of the highest calibre. A whole series of concerts with the Royal Prussian Court Orchestra - now the Staatskapelle Berlin - also took place here under the young Mendelssohn's direction, including premieres and first performances of his own works. The final version of his Hebrides Overture was presented to the public for the first time in 1833, while the first ‘official’ concert season of the Berlin court orchestra in 1842/43 saw the premiere of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, one of the composer's major works and one of the major works of 19th century symphonic music as a whole. Both works were largely inspired by the educational trip to England and Scotland, which Mendelssohn undertook as a 20-year-old and which had a lasting influence on him. The Violin Concerto, on the other hand, is a composition from the late 1840s, one of Mendelssohn's last scores, which shows him to be an artist who knew how to combine classical traditions with the aesthetics and expressive world of Romanticism in an original way.

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Cast

• Staatskapelle Berlin
  
• Conductor: Christian Thielemann
  
• María Dueñas violin
  

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Overture The Hebrides op. 26
Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64
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Symphony No. 3 in A minor op. 56 Scottish


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