Blåseensemblet spiller Mendelssohn

at Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo

Blåseensemblet spiller Mendelssohn is at Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo on Thursday 28 January 2027 at 19:00.

Date: Thu 28 Jan · 19:00
Promoter: Kirkelig Kulturverksted AS (Kulturkirken Jacob)

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Blåseensemblet spiller Mendelssohn is a pop concert at Kulturkirken Jakob, 0.4 km from the centre of Oslo. It is a good pick for music fans and a night out with friends. If you want to make a night of it, 13 other events are on in Oslo the same day.

About the event

From the organiser, as published on Ticketmaster.

With soloist Colin Scobie and conductor Peter Whelan The Scottish landscape is brought to Kulturkirken Jakob when the ensemble performs Mendelssohn's musical memories from Scotland. "I would very much like to write a violin concerto for you next winter. One in E minor goes through my head, and the beginning gives me no peace." That is what Felix Mendelssohn wrote to his good friend and collaborator Ferdinand David in 1838.

It would take six years before Mendelssohn found time to complete the work.

As we say: Those who wait for something good do not wait in vain. The result was one of the world's most beautiful and well-known violin concertos.

When the Wind Ensemble performs the work in Kulturkirken, they bring with them their good musical collaborator, violinist Colin Scobie (born 1991) from Scotland. Scobie is regarded as one of his generation's most creative and engaging violinists and chamber musicians.

His closeness to traditional Scottish fiddle playing gives him a distinctive expression in classical music. The audience loves it!

The applause lasted long and well when he was soloist in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the ensemble in 2025. Now Mendelssohn's violin concerto is on the agenda. "It is often one of the first great concertos we learn, but precisely for that reason it is easy to underestimate how difficult it is to master.

The music is crystalline in its expression, and the interplay with the orchestra requires a very particular precision and sensitivity." -- Colin Scobie Mendelssohn had a great fondness for Scotland. According to Scobie, there are clear traces of the Scottish landscape in the work's structure.

The first movement is intense, dramatic and full of passion. Then follows a much calmer, slow movement.

It still has a hint of drama, but at the same time gives a feeling of peace and openness, as if the sea has settled after the storm. The finale opens an entirely different landscape: The music is lively, with clear connections to Scottish folk music.

At the concert the Wind Ensemble will also perform Mendelssohn's Hebrides and his Symphony No. 3, The Scottish. Both works are like music