Shakespeare-Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SACD + Book) | Alia Vox AVSA9960

Shakespeare-Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SACD + Book)

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Label: Alia Vox

Cat No: AVSA9960

Format: Hybrid SACD + Book

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 8th November 2024

Contents

Artists

Flore van Meerssche (soprano)
Diana Haller (mezzo-soprano)
La Capella Nacional de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations

Conductor

Jordi Savall

Works

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21

Shakespeare, William

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Artists

Flore van Meerssche (soprano)
Diana Haller (mezzo-soprano)
La Capella Nacional de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations

Conductor

Jordi Savall

About

A new SACD-book by Jordi Savall. The most comprehensive recording of Mendelssohn’s masterpiece with a cast of English and German actors.

Jordi Savall has has gone above and beyond for this work. In addition to the music composed by Mendelssohn for orchestra, choir and soloists, this set offers the melodramas with the spoken parts, showing how Shakespeare's text is enhanced by Mendelssohn's music. Also included is an abridged version of the play, allowing you to follow along with the plot. The texts are declaimed and sung in both English (disc one) and German (disc two), since the work was created in Germany. Nevertheless, for those listeners who wish to hear only the music without spoken texts, discs three and four offer the programme in a 'concert version'.

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