Coinciding with the Shakespeare 400 anniversary celebration, LCO String Quartet performs a specially commissioned arrangement of Mendelssohn’s original music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Paul Max Edlin. Global Shakespeare performers will enact a variety of roles from the Bard’s seminal work, including Oberon, Puck and Fairy.
Preceded by an introduction from Shakespeare specialist David Shalkwyk.
What links Mendelssohn and Walton? A love of Shakespeare, whose 400th anniversary falls in 2016. Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto is coupled with Walton's music for Henry V.
An all-Beethoven programme featuring his Piano Trio No. 11 (the 'Kakadu' variations), the Triple Concerto and the Fourth Symphony, with Lorenza Borrani, violin/director, Luise Buchberger, cello, and...
A programme of John Adams' minimalist masterpiece Shaker Loops, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Copland's Appalachian Spring, plus a new work by Paul Edlin performed by the young participants...
