Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music
Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker (sopranos) / Varsity Voices / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 July 2010
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"The self-contained numbers...may be familiar items, but on disc...you discover and enjoy so much more: the flashes of instrumental colour, the exquisite little tone paintings that intersperse or accompany the spoken text...Judd's New Zealand and British forces...make it a rewarding experience." Sunday Times, 11th July 2010 ***
In 1826 Felix Mendelssohn, aged only seventeen, composed his famous overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
He wrote incidental music for the same play sixteen years later, and effortlessly recaptured the world of his youthful imagination. It sparkles and shimmers with its fairy magic even now.
In this recording, the haunting Nocturne, the lively Scherzo and the famous Wedding March are interspersed with 'melodramas' accompanying spoken text from Shakespeare's much-loved play.
