Shakespeare And Love

Sat 20 Oct 7:00pm at Symphony Hall

Romantic composers always liked to make a link between the sounds of nature and their own emotional life, and nowhere is this more true than in the music of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Mahler. Mendelssohn’s magnificent 1843 incidental music to Shakespeare’s most magical play offers a rich portrait of its various worlds – the fleet-footed fairies, the rude mechanicals and of course the confused young lovers. Schumann’s symphony of just a couple of years earlier was written in the first flush of excitement following his long-delayed marriage to Clara, and is heard tonight in its strikingly-original first version from 1841. Mahler’s song cycle also inhabits a twilit world of passionate young lovers, and is sung for us tonight by one of the greatest of British mezzos.

20 Oct 5.45pm FREE pre-concert talk

£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50

Ilan Volkov Conductor
Sarah Connolly Mezzo-Soprano
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus

Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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