Symphony no. 3 “Scotch” / Overture to “Fingal’s Cave”

Album by Felix Mendelssohn & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Sergiu Comissiona

This release is a recording of orchestral works by Felix Mendelssohn, featuring a symphony completed in 1842 and an overture originally composed in 1830. The music exemplifies early Romantic orchestral style with richly textured orchestration and programme-style evocations of landscape, and it represents a mature stage in Mendelssohn's career when lyrical thematic development and evocative tone-painting became central to his larger-scale works.

Symphony no. 3 “Scotch” / Overture to “Fingal’s Cave” by Mendelssohn - album cover

First released: 1975

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1.
Symphony no. 3 in A minor, op. 56 “Scotch”: I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato / II. Vivace non troppo
20:55
2.
Symphony no. 3 in A minor, op. 56 “Scotch”: III. Adagio / IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai
19:30
3.
The Hebrides (“Fingal’s Cave”) Concert Overture no. 2, op. 26
8:48