Mendelssohn’s Dream – Sunday 8 March, 6pm
Classics by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Puccini and Haydn feature in Firebird’s March concert in Waterloo with soloist Ariel Lanyi. (Please note: this concert starts at 6pm)
In association with the London Chamber Music Society’s season focusing on a theme of Visions and Spirits, Firebird opens this concert with Mendelssohn’s bewitching Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
We are delighted to welcome pianist Ariel Lanyi for a performance of Beethoven’s much-loved fourth piano concerto. Ariel was 2021 Leeds Piano Competition prize winner and the Prix Serdang of CHF 50,000 in Switzerland.
“…Ariel Lanyi put on a brilliant performance at the master concert in Homburg … the young star’s virtuosity and sheer orchestral sonority is unbelievable…”
Saarlander Zeitung / Homburg / March 2022
An exquisite work by Puccini, inspired by white Chrysanthemum flowers follows. This piece was written in tribute of the late King Amadeo I of Spain, son of the Italian King Vittorio Emmanuelle II.
The concert concludes with Haydn’s riveting Miracle Symphony – so called after an incident during its premiere when a chandelier fell from the ceiling of the concert hall. Fortunately no-one was harmed!
Mendelssohn Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4 in G, Op. 58
Puccini I Crisantemi ‘Chrysanthemums’
Haydn Symphony no. 96 in D, Hob. 1:96 The Miracle
St John’s Waterloo | Sunday 8 March 2026, 6pm
Conductor George Jackson | Piano Ariel Lanyi
With kind support from the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT):
