Mendelssohn, Elgar and Wagner
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This event took place on Tuesday 25 November 2025.
- Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Cadogan Hall
Mendelssohn, Elgar and Wagner
Tue 25 Nov 2025
Need to know
Repertoire
- Wagner The Flying Dutchman: Overture
- Elgar Sea Pictures
- Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, 'Scottish'
Features
- Antony Hermus Conductor
- Jess Dandy Contralto
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
‘In the evening twilight we went today to the palace were Queen Mary lived and loved’ wrote Felix Mendelssohn from Edinburgh in 1829, after visiting the ruins of Holyrood. ‘I think I have found there the beginning of my ‘Scottish’ Symphony.’ Though much has changed in 196 years, there’s still no more melodious – or poetic – musical portrait of Scotland as seen through the eyes of one of music’s supreme Romantics. Conductor Antony Hermus brings a fresh perspective to Mendelssohn’s highland fling, setting it against the sea spray and howling gales of Wagner’s great musical seascape, and joining the wonderful British contralto Jess Dandy in Elgar’s Sea Pictures – five songs filled with surging waves and surprisingly dark passions. Thought you knew Elgar? Think again…
’We were fortunate to have the rare opportunity to hear a true contralto: Jess Dandy’s beautiful, rich voice was captivating.’ Bachtrack, March 2024
*Kindly supported by The Elgar Society
Large print versions and digital formats of the programme for this concert are available on request for customers with accessibility requirements. Please email your request to Doran Crowhurst crowhurstd@rpo.co.uk at least one full week before the performance.