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Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570794

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th June 2010

Contents

Artists

Jenny Wollerman (soprano)
Pepe Becker (soprano)
Varsity Voices
Nota Bene
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

Works

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Artists

Jenny Wollerman (soprano)
Pepe Becker (soprano)
Varsity Voices
Nota Bene
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

About

Complete Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, with spoken text and melodramas in English.

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.

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