Name: Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Start: 2024-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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Gemma New

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Anthony McGill

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

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Royal Albert Hall

Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Salomé, Op.100 Bonis (+2 More)

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Salomé, Op.100

Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Paul Koneri

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About This Event
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’s story (see also Proms 24 & 68) – performed with readings from the play for dramatic context – after equally colourful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Bonis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Fri 16 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Gemma New, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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