A Midsummer Night's Dream

Album by Felix Mendelssohn & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & James Judd

A Midsummer Night's Dream is incidental music by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, written in 1842 to accompany Shakespeare's play. The score blends lyrical orchestral writing, light scherzo-like textures and Romantic-period harmonic language, and represents a late-career expansion of the overture Mendelssohn composed in 1826, linking his youthful themes to his mature style.
First released: 2010

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Overture
    12:37
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Scherzo (After Act I)
    4:24
  3. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act II Scene 1 - Puck: How, now, spirit! Whither wander you?
    2:21
  4. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act II Scene 1, Fairies March - Oberon: Ill met by moonlight...
    4:18
  5. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act II Scene 1 - Titiana: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song / Song: Ye Spotted Snakes...
    4:08
  6. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act II Scene 2 - Oberon: What thou seest when thou dost wake...
    1:39
  7. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Intermezzo (After Act II)
    3:34
  8. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act III Scene 1 - Quince: Come, sit down, every mother's son...
    6:57
  9. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act III Scene 2 - Oberon: I wonder if Titiana be awaked...
    7:03
  10. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Nocturne (After Act III)
    6:02
  11. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act IV Scene 1 - Oberon: Her dotage now I do begin to pity...
    4:59
  12. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Wedding March (After Act IV)
    4:44
  13. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act V Scene 1 - Philostrate: So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd...
    2:52
  14. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act V Scene 1, Funeral March - Hippolyta: How chance Moonshine is gone...
    1:35
  15. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act V Scene 1, Dance of the Clowns - Theseus: The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve...
    3:41
  16. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act V Scene 1 - Oberon: Through the house give glimmering light...
    0:29
  17. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Act V Scene 1, Song (Fairies): Through this house give glimmering light... / Oberon - Now until the break of day...
    5:10

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