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Season Introduction

Season Features

2008 concerts

5 October
Sunday, 2.45pm

26 October
Sunday, 2.45pm

15 November
Saturday, 7.30pm

23 November
Sunday, 2.45pm

7 December
Sunday, 2.45pm

31 December
Wednesday, 2.45pm


2009 concerts

18 January
Sunday, 2.45pm

8 February
Sunday, 2.45pm

1 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

15 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

29 March
Sunday, 2.45pm

Sunday 1 March 2009 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Barry Wordsworth conductor
Soojin Han violin
Joanna David narrator
Brighton Festival Youth Choir

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born 200 years ago, was a child prodigy to rival Mozart, but the works in this concert come from the last few years of his life. Despite this, the Violin Concerto in E minor exudes a youthful exuberance perfectly suited to Korean violinist Soojin Han, who at the age of twenty has already performed in major concert halls across Europe and won a number of international prizes, from the Royal Philharmonic Society's to Poland's Wieniawski International Violin Competition.

The Overture, Intermezzo, Nocturne, Scherzo and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream are some of Mendelssohn's best-loved music and have rightly taken their place alongside the Violin Concerto as classics. Yet the incidental music he wrote for Shakespeare's play also contains many other delights, including two songs for soloists and chorus, here sung by the talented Brighton Festival Youth Choir (prize winners at the 2007 Verona International Choir Competition).

Actress Joanna David, well known for her appearances in television costume dramas such as Rebecca and Pride and Prejudice, takes us through the drama of a piece that she herself chose as one of her 'Private Passions' in the programme of that name on BBC Radio 3.

Tickets £8 - £30 (Click here to book online)

Sponsored by D.V. Newbold CBE

Soojin Han's appearance is supported by the Kirckman Concert Society

1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with Soojin Han and Juliette Pochin (Music Director, Brighton Festival Youth Choir) (Tickets £2.50)

Click here to download the printed programme for this concert
(available at least 48 hours before the concert)