This concert programme provides us with the experience of travel, but this is perhaps only partially true with the Cello Concerto of Edward William Elgar. A great English musical explorer in the early 20th century, he created his own unique style based on late romanticism and profoundly influenced the development of English music. Richard Wagner’s overture, similarly to the opera, before it is played, was the result of a real travel experience. In the summer of 1839, Wagner was travelling to London from Riga by boat. The sailors told him the legend of the Flying Dutchman and the stormy sea outside heightened the tale in his imagination. Felix Mendelssohn was twenty-two when he travelled through Italy and the impressions he gathered there were preserved in his Symphony No. 4 written two years later. The joy of the first movement radiates a harmonic feel for life, the second movement is all lyricism, the scherzo expresses a slightly Germanic homesickness while the finale is a wild Southern Italian saltarello.
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