Performances in this series:
Previous performances in this tour:
Mendelssohn 4, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham (Tue 25 November 2025)
Mendelssohn 4, Saffron Hall (Sun 23 November 2025)
Mendelssohn 4, Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Sat 22 November 2025)
Mendelssohn 4, Wiltshire Music Centre (Fri 21 November 2025)
The latest in our memorised series is Mendelssohn’s uplifting Fourth Symphony, which we’re taking on tour around the UK this autumn.
Nothing lifts the spirits quite like the opening of Mendelssohn’s symphony, which bursts into life with an irrepressible energy that could lift you off your feet. The composer once referred to it as ‘blue sky in A major’ and these postcards in sound from an epic 10-month foreign tour seem drenched in Mediterranean sunshine. Prokofiev’s concerto, written on the cusp of his resettlement in the Soviet Union, melds exquisite surface beauty with dark foreboding in his gripping, emotionally-charged concerto, performed by Chloë Hanslip. And to open, Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, inspired by a performance of a Haydn string quartet.