Programme
- Overture âThe Hebridesâ (âFingalâs Caveâ)(10 mins)
- Violin Concerto in E minor(27 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation'(27 mins)
Performers
- Isabelle Faustviolin
- Pablo HerasâCasadoconductor
Composers
About This Event
The dynamic Freiburg Baroque Orchestra brings authentic period-instrument colour to three of Mendelssohnâs best-loved orchestral works in a Proms matinee directed by rising young conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.
Violinist Isabelle Faust makes her second appearance this season, as soloist in Mendelssohnâs Violin Concerto â the composerâs last completed orchestral work, and perhaps the loveliest of all the Romantic violin concertos.
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation continues to be marked with Mendelssohnâs Fifth Symphony, whose final movement quotes movingly from Lutherâs chorale âEin feste Burg ist unser Gottâ, while the concert opens with the composerâs glorious overture The Hebrides, inspired by a visit to Fingalâs Cave on the Scottish Isle of Staffa.
Image: Pablo Heras-Casado © Fernando Sancho