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Last broadcast on Thu, 30 Jul 2009, 20:20 on BBC Radio 3.
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From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley.
In a performance given as part of the 200th anniverary celebrations of Mendelssohn's birth, Mark Elder conducts the Halle in the rarely-heard Symphony No 2, which was wildly popular with the Victorians. Beethoven may have made the idea of a symphony with a choral finale famous, but Mendelssohn trumped him with his Hymn of Praise in 1840 - its choral finale so overwhelms the three preceding orchestral movements that Mendelssohn called the result a Symphony-Cantata.
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Susan Graham, Sarah Castle (mezzo-sopranos)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Halle Choir
Halle Youth Choir
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 in B flat (Lobgesang).
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