A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Album by Felix Mendelssohn & Eva Lind & Christine Cairns & Wiener Jeunesse-Chor & Wiener Philharmoniker & André Previn

A Midsummer Night's Dream is incidental music by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, first performed in 1843. The score blends lyrical orchestral writing, light choral passages and delicate instrumental colour to evoke the play's fairy scenes and dramatic shifts, and it represents a notable return to theatrical music in Mendelssohn's later career that influenced Romantic orchestral tone-painting.

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  1. 1.
    Overture, op. 21
    12:07
  2. 2.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: I. Scherzo
    4:42
  3. 3.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: II. Scene - Fairies' march
    1:52
  4. 4.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: III. Song with chorus "You spotted snakes"
    4:15
  5. 5.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: V. Intermezzo
    3:28
  6. 6.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: VII. Notturno
    6:40
  7. 7.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: IX. Wedding march
    5:17
  8. 8.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: X. Prologue
    0:23
  9. 9.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: X. Funeral march
    1:03
  10. 10.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: XI. Dance of the Clowns
    1:38
  11. 11.
    Incidental Music, op. 61: XII. Finale: Through this house
    5:46

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