Inspired by his travels to the British Isles and full of the influence of the rolling Scottish landscape, both Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’ and his Overture: The Hebrides (‘Fingal’s Cave’) are amongst the composer’s most popular and admired works. The London Symphony Orchestra present us with inspiring performances of these works, as well as a performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, featuring the celebrated pianist, Maria João Pires.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner writes of this coupling; ‘Even if they spoke with different accents these genial Romantics were united in their ambitious fervour for ‘abstract’ music to be acknowledged as having the same expressive force as poetry, drama or the literary novel. The three works on this album exemplify the endeavour and range of invention of two of them, friends and colleagues in Leipzig’.

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (‘Scottish’), The Hebrides; Schumann: Piano Concerto – Maria João Pires, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Mendelssohn was inspired by his travels to the British Isles, and full of the influence of the rolling Scottish landscape he composed both his Symphony No. 3 (‘Scottish’) and his Overture The Hebrides (‘Fingal’s Cave’), amongst his most popular and admired works. The London Symphony Orchestra presents us with invigorating performances of these works, as well as a performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, featuring the celebrated pianist Maria João Pires.

‘Even if they spoke with different accents, these genial romantics were united in their ambitious fervour for “abstract” music to be acknowledged as having the same expressive force as poetry, drama, or the literary novel. The three works on this album exemplify the endeavour and range of invention of two of them, friends and colleagues in Leipzig.’

Sir John Eliot Gardiner