PERFORMERS:
Soloists:
Mikhail Pochekin (violin)
Ivan Pochekin (viola)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Knapp
PROGRAMME:
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony overture The Hebrides, or Fingal’s Cave in B Minor, Op. 26
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertnte in E Flat Major for Violin and Viola, KV 364
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
The Hebrides overture (Fingal’s Cave) was one of the first results of Felix Mendelsohn’s grand tour of Scotland in the summer of 1829. Having visited Walter Scott, the composer set off for the west coast and on 8 August he visited the islands of Iona and Staffa. “Fingal’s Cave” is located on the latter and was named in honour of the father of the legendary Celtic bard Ossian.
Mendelssohn hesitated for some time in his choice of the work’s name. One thing is beyond doubt: the work itself would never have appeared but for his impressions of the Hebrides and the Atlantic. There are barely thirty bars in the overture where the flow of the waves subsides. All the themes of the overture are born from flowing figurations that depict the surf of the ocean and they are in constant motion, changing their image. In some mysterious way this natural process in Mendelssohn’s hands emerges in true sonata form.
Anna Bulycheva
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