A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Album by Felix Mendelssohn & Heather Harper & Dame Janet Baker & Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer
A Midsummer Night's Dream is incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn, composed in 1842 for Shakespeare's play. Musically it blends Romantic-era orchestral colour with fleet, lyrical motifs and shimmering textures that evoke the play's fairyland atmosphere, and it is a notable example of Mendelssohn's contributions to nineteenth-century theatre and programme music.
First released: 1960
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- 1.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: Overture, op. 2112:56
- 2.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: I. Scherzo5:32
- 3.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: IIa. Marche des fées1:19
- 4.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: III. “Ye Spotted Snakes”4:43
- 5.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: V. Intermezzo4:00
- 6.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: VII. Nocturne7:06
- 7.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: IX. Marche nuptiale5:03
- 8.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: Xa. Marche funèbre1:04
- 9.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: XI. Danse des clowns1:52
- 10.Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, op. 61: Finale: “Through the House”4:48
