The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO)

Programme:
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo
Schubert - Overture in the Italian Style in D major
Tchaikovsky - Suite No.4 in G Mozartiana

Vasily Petrenko - conductor

Mendelssohn was just 18 when he wrote his famous overture. He travelled 80 miles through the snow to hear his first big public success but it was 16 years before he wrote the rest of the music for Shakespeare’s iconic play. Tchaikovsky called Mozart “my god”, and his musical homage was to take four pieces by the composer, make them his own, and celebrate “these pearls of musical art”. Glorious music!