Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" overture op.26 (Neeme Järvi / Orchestre National de France)

Neeme Järvi conducts the Orchestre National de France performing Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture. Excerpt from the concert recorded live on 24 January 2019 at the Radio France Auditorium.
The Hebrides Overture was composed between 1829 and 1932, whilst Felix Mendelssohn travelled across Scotland and Italy, allowing him to sketch the first drafts of the his Scottish and Italian symphonies, Mendelssohn's most famous symphonic works.
Known as “The Hebrides”, an island chain in the north of Scotland famous for its inhospitable climate, the work is often referred to as "Fingal’s Cave", in reference to Fingal a mythical character from Ossians Poems, a collection of 3rd-century poems and songs attributed to the bard Ossian.
Approximately 10 minutes in length, the Hebrides Overture was conceived as a Sonata Allegro. It opens with the main theme, calm, undulating and dark, gradually developed throughout the work, bringing to mind the mystery of the sea. The central section is more tumultuous, “a flood of semiquaver scales by the strings", evoking the waves crashing against the walls of the cave (François-René Tranchefort). Much like A Midsummer Night's Dream, the work closes with a return to calm and peacefulness.
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