Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

Concert overture ‘The Hebrides’ (Die Hebriden), Opus 26, by Felix Mendelssohn, also called ‘Fingal’s Cave’. He conceived its opening theme after visiting the basalt sea cave on Staffa in the Inner Hebrides in August 1829; he completed a first version in 1830 and revised it to its final form, first performed in London on 14 May 1832. The roughly 10-minute piece in B minor evokes the swell and echo of the Atlantic against the cave.