Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream) / Piau · Collot · Herreweghe
On this CD:
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Champs Elysees Orchestra
with Delphine Collot, Sandrine Piau
Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe
2. The Hebrides, overture in B minor for orchestra ("Fingal's Cave," 4 versions), Op. 26
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Champs Elysees Orchestra
Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe
Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream) / Piau · Collot · Herreweghe, Music, Félix Mendelssohn, Philippe Herreweghe, Sandrine Piau, Delphine Collot, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Collegium Vocale La Chapelle Royale, Classical, Classical Music, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Romantic Incidental Music for Orchestra, Romantic Overture for Orchestra
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- Mendelssoh's fantastic side, familiar and strange
- A Wondrous Performance
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Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum/Die erste Walpurgisnacht
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Release Date: 1993-11-02 |
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Mendelssoh's fantastic side, familiar and strange.......2006-12-12
The catalog doesn't need a new version of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, but this one is sung and spoken in German (hence the use of Sommernachtstraum on the cover), which is rare. It's reminder that Mendelssohn was setting a German translation of Shakespeare. Harnoncourt's performance is very fine. His speakers and singers are first-rate, and he evokes both the dreamy relaxation of the play and its mercurial swiftness. Tempos are on the fast side, phrasing is crips without being terse, and the execution by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe could be mistaken for the Concertgebouw.
Mendelssohn wrote the overture to MND when he was 17, but he was thirty when he composed the rest of the music in 1840-41. In between, he set a ballad of Goethe's as a sedular oratorio from 1830, The First Walpurgis Night. It isn't one of his most notable works, since it falls short of expressing Goethe's text. Heresy and paganism seem rather lightly dealt with, and critics often point out that Mendelssohn, a composer uncomfortable with dissonance, was hardly the right choice to depict evil. The writer of the liner notes for this CD takes the posiiton that the music is meant to be satiric and humorous. Maybe.
In any event, Harnoncourt gives his all, and there are moments of quality music, such as the overture, that I was happy to encounter. Among the seven soloists (too many for the practical staging of a 30+ min. work), Thomas Hampson and Rene Pape are the standouts, not surprisingly. the Arnold Schoenberg Choir is expert, as always. I think the best way to approach Die erste Walpurgisnacht is to tkae it as lihgtly as MND, disregarding the Victorian niceties of Mendelssohn's theology. As diabolical fairy music it's not as engaging as its famous disc mate, but enjoyable nonetheless.
A Wondrous Performance.......2005-04-07
This is a truly wondrous coupling and performance. Die erste Walpurgisnacht sounds truly symphonic, like a cross between Berlioz' Fantastique and Beethoven's 9th. A great less-performed work. The Midsummer's Night to some might be a bit fast, but the energy is as authentic and welcome as can be.
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Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream) / Piau · Collot · Herreweghe
Félix Mendelssohn , Philippe Herreweghe , Sandrine Piau , Delphine Collot , Orchestre des Champs-Élysées , and Collegium Vocale La Chapelle Royale
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Release Date: 2001-11-13 |
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Felix Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum/Die Hebriden Overture
Manufacturer: Capriccio
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Release Date: 1995-12-01 |
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum
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Release Date: 2006-02-28 |
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Felix Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum/Die Hebriden Overture
Manufacturer: Capriccio
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ASIN: B000001WP1
Release Date: 1994-11-08 |
Tracks:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Ov - Kolner RSO/Hans Vonk
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Scherzo
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Fairy's March
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Fairy's Song
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Intermezzo
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Nocturne
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Wedding March
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Marcia Funebre
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Dance Of The Clowns
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21/Op.61: Finale
- The Hebrides: Ov, Op.26 - Kolner RSO/Hans Vonk
Product Description
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847). Die erste Walpurgisnacht op. 60: 1. Ouverture 2./ Es lacht der Mai/ (Tenor und Chor) 3./ Konnt ihr so verwegen handeln?/ (Alt) 4./ Wer Opfer heut zu bringen scheut/ (Bariton und Chor) 5./ Verteilt euch, wackre Manner hier/ (Chor) 6./ Diese dumpfen Pfaffenchristen/ (Bab) 7./ Kommt mit Zacken und mit Gabeln/ (Bab) 8./ Kommt mit Zacken und mit Gabeln/ (Chor) 9./ So weit gebracht dab wir bei Nacht/ (Bariton) 10./ Hilf, ach hilf mir, Kriegsgeselle/ (Tenor) 11./ Die Flame reinigt sich vom Rauch/ (Chor). Birgit Remmert, alto; Uwe Heilmann, tenor; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Rene Pape, bass. Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Chorus master: Erwin Ortner. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. A Midsummer Nights Dream/ Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 61: 12. Ouverture op. 21 13. Nr. 1 Scherzo 14. Nr. 3 Lied mit Chor 15. Nr. 5 Allegro appassionato 16. Nr. 7 Con moto tranquillo 17. Nr. 9 Hochzeitsmarsch (Wedding March) 18. Nr. 11 Ein Tanz von Rupeln (A Rude Mechanicals Dance) 19. Finale. Pamela Coburn, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, alto, narrator; Christoph Bantzer, narrator. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Recorded in 1992.
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