Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture

In this concert we hear Jörg Widmann's distinctive arrangements of music by his musical hero Felix Mendelssohn. We are treated to an unexpected dialogue across time, from the dreamy andante movement he played as a child to an ironic paraphrase on the wedding march. Together with Mendelssohn's majestic depiction of nature from Fingal's Cave and the powerful Reformation Symphony, the evening becomes one where reverence and innovation go hand in hand.

There is something captivating about the idea of a dialogue across time. When the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann brings forth Mendelssohn's music and reworks it, he plays with it and places it in new contexts. In this concert we encounter Widmann's music side by side with Mendelssohn's, discovering how two composers converse across nearly two hundred years.