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A shining cast and the première of a new violin concerto offered two highlights on this evening.

Joyful Haydn and intense Schoenberg from Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, joined by Oliver Schnyder for some energetic Mendelssohn.

In an excellent performance, two Dutch masters wow their audience with Mendelssohn's romanticism in a concerto not often performed, with a German orchestra barely playing back-up.

The Scottish Ensemble launched their 2011/12 season with a programme of Mendelssohn and Stravinsky. On the face of it the pairing looked rather unlikely, but as Artistic Director Jonathan Morton explained to us, both composers were full of energy and invention, and each searching out new musical direction in their own times.

Gardiner setzt nahtlos an vorherige Erfolge an: Schumann und Mendelssohn mit allem, was es für gerechte Begeisterung braucht.

Soirée contrastée ce jeudi soir, avec l’Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields qui nous proposait le Concerto pour violon de Haydn,  le Concerto pour violon et piano en ré mineur de Mendelssohn et La Nuit transfigurée de Schönberg,  sous la direction de Julia Fischer.

Es war eine reine Freude, das Spiel der Solisten bei ihrem raschen Figurenwerk mitzuverfolgen, zu sehen und zu hören, wie perfekt Solisten und Orchester zusammenspielten.