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Scottish Sinfonia

Presented by: Linlithgow Arts Guild (SC048083)

0	LINLITHGOW: St Michaels Parish Church
P	Saturday 27th January, 2024
N	7:00pm

Event information

Programme:
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
Rossini: William Tell

Writing about his Symphony No.3, composed following a visit to Scotland, Mendelssohn wrote: “We went, in deep twilight, to the palace where Queen Mary lived and loved … Everything around is broken and mouldering and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found the beginning of my Scotch[sic] Symphony there today.” [July 30th 1829]. Mendelssohn loved Scotland and this symphony is surely one his most expressive and poetic works.
(The "palace" referred to is Holyrood, not Linlithgow!)
As if one well-loved symphony is not enough, we also offer Dvořák’s seventh – a dramatic work certainly, but brim full of those characteristically warm-hearted melodies that only he could pen.
We bring our concert to a rousing conclusion indeed with Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture – guaranteed to send you out into the January night with yet more themes buzzing around in the head – whatever the weather!