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Proms 2016 Prom 48

Prom 48
Prom 48: Matthias Pintscher and Mendelssohn
19:30 Sun 21 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall
Alisa Weilerstein joins the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus for cello and orchestra, before a performance of Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, interspersed with text by Gerard McBurney.
Alisa Weilerstein joins the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus for cello and orchestra, before a performance of Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, interspersed with text by Gerard McBurney.

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Narcissus, the Thespian hunter who fell in love with his own image, inspired Matthias Pintscher to compose his own reflection on ‘the interaction of different groups and their mirror images’, a work for cello and orchestra. Pintscher conducts Reflections on Narcissus here before a semi-staged performance of Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Mendelssohn’s delicate, mercurial and strident music is interspersed with excerpts from Shakespeare’s text to form a centrepiece of this season’s celebrations of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary.

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