Description: Bartholdy / Swedish - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream [New SACD] Artist: Bartholdy / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Dausgaard Title: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Condition: Format: SACD Release Date: 2016 Label: Bis UPC: 7318599921662 Genre: Classical Artists Details1. Das Märchen Von Der Schönen Melusine, Op. 32, MWV P122. Ouverture. Allegro Di Molto3. 1. Scherzo. Allegro Vivace4. 2. L'istesso Tempo - (Elfenreigen). Allegro Vivace5. 3. Lied Mit Chor. Allegro Ma Non Troppo6. 4. Andante (Oberon Tritt Auf)7. 5. (Intermezzo) Allegro Appassionato - Allegro Molto Comodo8. 6. Allegro - Allegro Molto - Andante - Allegro Molto Come I9. 7. (Notturno) Andante Tranquillo10. 8. Andante - Allegro Molto - Andante Tranquillo - Allegro Molto11. 9. Hochzeitsmarsch. Allegro Vivace12. 10. Allegro Comodo - Marcia Funebre. Andante Comodo13. 11. Ein Tanz Von Rüpeln. Allegro Di Molto14. 12. Allegro Vivace Come I15. Finale. Allegro Di Molto16. Die Hebriden, Op. 26, MWV P7 Following a series of acclaimed recordings of 19th-century music including complete cycles of the symphonies by Schubert and Schumann, Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra turn to Felix Mendelssohn. The team's latest offering unites three of the composer's four celebrated concert overtures, written between 1826 and 1835 and setting new standards for this emerging genre: Mendelssohn's overtures are also tone poems, combining a Classical conception with Romantic expressivity. The earliest of the three, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn composed at the age of seventeen, and his sister Fanny later remarked how Shakespeare's play had been a constant presence at their home, and 'how at various ages we had read all the different roles, from Peaseblossom to Hermia and Helena...' The overture immediately became one of Mendelssohn's signature pieces, and seventeen years later he returned to it, composing additional incidental music for a stage production of the play. Written for soloists, women's choir and orchestra, the complete Midsummer Night score is included here. The disc opens with the last of the four overtures to be composed, however: The Fair Melusine, which Mendelssohn wrote after having heard an opera based on the old French tale of the water spirit Mélusine and her sad fate. Actively disliking the opera, Mendelssohn was provoked into his own musical setting of the subject matter in the form of a concert overture. Water, and it's depiction in music also plays an important role in The Hebrides, the closing work on the present recording. Inspired by the poems by Ossian, which captured the imagination of an entire generation at the beginning of the Romantic era. Mendelssohn visited Scotland and the Hebrides in 1829, and already during this trip he sent a postcard to his family, with the overture's famous opening written down in a four-part setting.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Title: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Album Name: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Brand: Bis
Release Year: 2016
Format: Super Audio CD (SACD)
Genre: Classical Artists
Artist: Bartholdy / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Dausgaard
Record Label: Bis
Release Title: Mendelssohn: a Midsummer Night's Dream