Mendelssohn Octet @ Dunbar Parish Church

Part of the Lammermuir Festival

An unmissable programme of large-scale chamber music. Mendelssohn’s Octet reaches levels of inspiration that are scarcely credible for a 16-year old, and indeed this was one of the pieces that instantly propelled the teenage genius to international fame. Maria Wloszczowska and her Royal Northern Sinfonia colleagues pair it with another scintillating product of ardent youth, Brahms’s 1st Serenade, composed when he was just 22 and played here in its original nonet version