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Precocious, a child prodigy, highly gifted - what would you call Felix Mendelssohn's musical achievements at an age when today's teenagers are trying to get high scores on video games? At the age of 17, he wrote an overture that, as a masterpiece, definitely belongs in the top 10 of classical music. Felix Mendelssohn - he was called the Mozart of the 19th century for a reason: no other composer's music sounds so effortless, so floating, so magical. The best example of this is the incidental music to Shakespeare's comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', that literary classic from the fairy realm with its exuberant humour. Mendelssohn's music is equally magical: as weightless as the fairy creatures, as surprising as the intrigues of the goblin Puck, and as enchanting as if from a distant fantasy. After this pure Mendelssohn evening with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and its chief conductor Alain Altinoglu, a place on cloud nine is guaranteed at the Young Concert.
