Mendelssohn's Scottish. Mallorca Chamber Orchestra

Romanticism transformed music into a language capable of expressing the most intimate emotions and evoking landscapes, memories, and feelings. This program invites us to discover three complementary perspectives on this expressive universe, guided by some of the fundamental figures of German Romanticism. The concert opens with the Overture in C major by Fanny Mendelssohn. Sister of Felix Mendelssohn and possessing extraordinary talent, Fanny saw her public career limited by the social conventions of the time. This overture, her only purely orchestral work, reveals a brilliant writing, full of vitality and refinement, which we now recover as an essential part of the Romantic musical heritage. The Cello Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann, written in 1850, takes us into a much more introspective world. Far from pure virtuoso exhibitionism, Schumann conceives an intimate dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra, with three movements that flow without interruption and move between melancholy, lyricism, and passionate impulse. Finally, Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, "Scottish," transports us to the landscapes and the at...