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Afternoon on 3: Proms 2016 Repeats

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2016 Repeats: Prom 48: Pintscher, Mendelssohn

Prom 48: Pintscher, Mendelssohn

06/09/2016

Proms 2016 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2016 Repeats, Prom 48: Pintscher, Mendelssohn

BBC SSO in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a work by Matthias Pintscher.

BBC SSO conducted by Matthias Pintscher. Pintscher: Reflections on Narcissus (with Alisa Weilerstein: cello). Mendelssohn: Overture and Incidental Music (A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore 

Another chance to hear the BBC SSO perform Matthias Pintscher's Reflections on Narcissus with cellist Alisa Weilerstein plus music from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Matthias Pintscher: Reflections on Narcissus
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

2.40pm
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and Incidental Music, Op 61
Bottom ..... Mark Benton
Oberon/Theseus ..... Alex Hassell
Puck ..... Simon Manyonda
Hermia/Fairy/Mistress Quince ..... Sinead Matthews
Lysander/Snout/Philostrate ..... Sam Swann
Titania/Hippolyta ..... Michelle Terry
Bijan Sheibani (stage director)

Katherine Broderick (soprano)
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Finchley Children's Music Group
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

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.

[First broadcast on Sunday 21st August]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2016 Repeats

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