Mendelssohn & Schumann // Sir John Eliot Gardiner // Maria João Pires // LSO

A performance recorded at the Barbican Centre on 21 January 2014. Read the digital programme notes: Tonight’s programme: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts works inspired by German composer Felix Mendelssohn’s travels to Scotland, with the Hebrides overture and his Third ‘Scottish’ Symphony. Full of the influence of the rolling Scottish landscape, both works are amongst the composer’s most popular and admired works. Celebrated pianist Maria João P