Ouverture zu den Hebriden, Opus 26

"The Isles of Fingal conceived on Mendelssohn's Grand Tour of 1829-1832 provided the prototype for this remarkable arrangement for piano duet, memorialising forever the eventful journey the composer and his friend Carl Klingemann took to the Highlands of Scotland. Climaxing with a churning boat ride out to Staffa, location of the celebrated geological oddity known as Fingal's Cave, the journey was...