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Mendelssohn's Octet
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Part of the ECO LIVE: Teatime Music 2020 Series
Add to my Calendar 27-09-2020 16:00 27-09-2020 18:00 36 Mendelssohn's Octet Link to Concert: Mendelssohn's OctetAmongst the many jewels that were composed in Mendelssohn’s prodigious youth, sits the Octet in E-flat major, written in 1825, when the composer was just sixteen. The four movement work glides effortlessly from elegant expanse, to touching sentimentality, to spry fairy-like music that foreshadows his much loved overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dreamwritten the following year. Preluding this work is Borodin’s Sextet in D minor, a work that comprises only two movements, the others never having been completed by the composer, but that is full of style, beauty and rustic Russian lyricism. English Chamber Orchestra Ltd, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
English Chamber Orchestra Ltd
2 Coningsby Road
Ealing
London
W5 4HR
England
Programme
Aleksandr Borodin – String Sextet in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in E flat major, Op.20
Performers
Stephanie Gonley – Director
English Chamber Orchestra
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Programme Note
Link to Concert: Mendelssohn's Octet
Amongst the many jewels that were composed in Mendelssohn’s prodigious youth, sits the Octet in E-flat major, written in 1825, when the composer was just sixteen. The four movement work glides effortlessly from elegant expanse, to touching sentimentality, to spry fairy-like music that foreshadows his much loved overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dreamwritten the following year.
Preluding this work is Borodin’s Sextet in D minor, a work that comprises only two movements, the others never having been completed by the composer, but that is full of style, beauty and rustic Russian lyricism.
