Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony

The music

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture (10’) Listen
Spohr Clarinet Concerto No. 4 (27’) Listen
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) (40’) Listen

The performers

• Shira Samuels-Shragg* conductor
• Benjamin Mellefont** clarinet

A Valentine’s concert with a marvellously classy difference.

They called them the Romantic generation: composers who let their imaginations run wild, painting landscapes in sound and revelling in untamed emotions, daredevil feats, and (of course) love. That’s the story we’re telling today, as brother-and-sister geniuses Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn stretch their creative wings, and take a tuneful tour of the Highlands in Felix’s stirring ‘Scottish’ Symphony. And then LPO Fellow Conductor Shira Samuels-Shragg and Principal Clarinet Benjamin Mellefont rediscover the music of Louis Spohr. Contemporaries thought he was up there with Beethoven, and you’re about to hear why.

*LPO Fellow Conductor 2026/27.

**LPO chair supported by Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton.