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Work: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61: Scherzo

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ComposerMendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeOrchestral
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EdinburghMozart & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos by Candlelight

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Mozart, Mendelssohn
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta; Victoria Lyon
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Eroica: Riccardo Minasi and the WASO

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Guest conductor Riccardo Minasi leads the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with a program of old favourites, with outstanding contribution from trumpeter Jenna Smith
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Zlata Chochieva in her element in Rachmaninov at Carnegie Hall

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A recital of two halves for the Moscow-born pianist in her long overdue Carnegie Hall debut. 
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Three Russian giants in Oxford

Had the piece been much longer, pianist, instrument, audience and hall would surely have been consumed by some Pentecostal fire. Which is more or less what the composer had in mind.
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