NSOI: Peter Whelan conducts Beethoven

Rheinlegendchen Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Verlor’ne Müh Das irdische Leben Lob des hohen Verstandes Wo die Schönen Trompeten blasen Urlicht The concert opens with Mendelssohn’s atmospheric overture The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) , inspired by the composers travels through Scotland as a young man and the dramatic beauty of the Hebridean coastline which clearly captured his imagination. Folk-inspired songs, drawn from an early 19th-century collection of German poetry, blending the everyday with the fantastical, can be heard in selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Ho