Pintscher and Mendelssohn and Shakespeare

[sawyl]

Ah, um, well, not at all sure what to make of yesterday's prom combining bits and pieces of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mendelssohn's incidental music for the same. My immediate suspcious is that, on radio at least, neither item did the other any favours; however I'm willing to believe it may have been different in hall.

On the plus side Matthias Pintscher's piece, Reflections on Narcissus for cello and orchestra which opened the concert, came off much better.