Symphonie fantastique (with Mendelssohn - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' excerpts)
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Symphonie fantastique (with Mendelssohn - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' excerpts)
Wiener Philharmoniker [Viennna Philharmonic], Pierre Monteux
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015
Decca Eloquence continues its exploration of the recordings of Pierre Monteux (several to follow this year) with a coupling of two works that invoke the supernatural. Monteux's brilliant, yet cultivated late-1950s readings of these works offer much pleasure, and both are released internationally on Decca CD for the first time.
"enchanting … attractive … the conducting and the Vienna Philharmonic's playing are a continual delight. Monteux gets the utmost delicacy in the Midsummer Night's Dream music and misses not a single deft touch in the orchestration." (Gramophone on the Mendelssohn)
"a lyrical interpretation … beautifully done … excellently recorded" (Gramophone on the Berlioz)
Tracks:
Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Mendelssohn:
A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
