Celebration of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.

7:30pm, Sun, 30 Jun 2024

  • Event Details
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  • Production: Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn
    Type of event: Performance
    Start time: 7:30pm
    Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall
    University of Kent
    Canterbury
    CT2 7NB
    Description: Celebration of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.

    Featuring their leader, Floriane Peycelon and Cora Hewitt, winner of the Canterbury Festival 2023 Young Musician’s Bursary Competition as soloists. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is at the centre of the programme: enigmatic and virtuosic in equal measure, the work forms an intriguing partner to the composer’s ‘Italian’ Symphony which brings the programme to a close. The concert includes arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Notturno in G minor and Pastorello in A major, with Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto ‘La Notte’ completing the programme.

    Both child prodigies, both heroes of their time, this concert celebrates the genius of Mendelssohn and Mendelssohn.

    The Canterbury Orchestra

    Soloists:

    Cora Hewitt  – Canterbury Festival Young Musician 2023 – Recorder

    Programme:

    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel arr. Davies – Notturno in G minor

    Vivaldi – Recorder Concerto ‘La Notte’

    Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto

    Interval

    Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel arr. Davies – Pastorello in A major

    Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 4 ‘Italian