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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Performance Date16 August 2024
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMoyo Akandé,
Ewan Black - speakers

Anthony McGill - clarinet
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsNYCOS Chamber Choir
ConductorsGemma New

Victoria Newlyn - Stage Director
Set ListBonis Salomé 4’
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major 25’
Interval
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music 60’
Performance NotesIn the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the play and, another 17 years later, augmented it with yet more scene-setting music – the most enchanting and characterful he would write.

Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s story – performed with readings from the play for dramatic context – after equally colourful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer this season.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/70BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’16 August 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
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