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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

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Details

Composer
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX
Artist
Tilling, Dausgaard
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jan 08, 2016
Catalog #
BIS-2166
UPC
7318599921662

About

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 its 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.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Ouverture zum Marchen von der schönen Melusine, Op. 32, MWV P12, "Die schöne Melusine" 09:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ouverture zum Marchen von der schönen Melusine, Op. 32, MWV P12, "Die schöne Melusine"
    Duration
    09:47
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  2. 2 Act I: Ouverture 10:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I: Ouverture
    Duration
    10:38
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  3. 3 Act I: Scherzo 04:31
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I: Scherzo
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  4. 4 Act II: Melodrama: He, Geist! Wo geht die Reise hin? 01:59
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act II: Melodrama: He, Geist! Wo geht die Reise hin?
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  5. 5 Act II: Kommt! einen Ringel, einen Feensang! - Lied: Bunte Schlangen, zweigezungt 04:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act II: Kommt! einen Ringel, einen Feensang! - Lied: Bunte Schlangen, zweigezungt
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Camilla Tilling, Magdalena Risberg
    Ensemble
    female section Swedish Radio Chorus, Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  6. 6 Act II: Andante 00:48
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act II: Andante
    Duration
    00:48
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  7. 7 Act II: Intermezzo 03:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act II: Intermezzo
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  8. 8 Act III: Allegro 04:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act III: Allegro
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  9. 9 Act III: Notturno 05:15
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act III: Notturno
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  10. 10 Act IV: Andante 01:43
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act IV: Andante
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  11. 11 Act IV: Hochzeitsmarsch 04:42
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act IV: Hochzeitsmarsch
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  12. 12 Act V: Allegro comodo - Marcia funebre 01:32
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act V: Allegro comodo - Marcia funebre
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  13. 13 Act V: Ein Tanz von Rupeln: Die Mitternacht zwolf mit ehrner Zunge 01:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act V: Ein Tanz von Rupeln: Die Mitternacht zwolf mit ehrner Zunge
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  14. 14 Act V: Allegro vivace come I 00:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    Act V: Allegro vivace come I
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  15. 15 Act V: Finale 03:49
    Track
    15
    Title
    Act V: Finale
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Camilla Tilling
    Ensemble
    female section Swedish Radio Chorus, Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  16. 16 The Hebrides in D Major, Op. 26, MWV P7, "Fingal's Cave" 08:51
    Track
    16
    Title
    The Hebrides in D Major, Op. 26, MWV P7, "Fingal's Cave"
    Duration
    08:51
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard