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.

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  1. 1.
    Overture, op. 21
    12:51
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: I. Scherzo
    5:29
  3. 3.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: IIa. March of the Fairies
    1:17
  4. 4.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: III. “Ye Spotted Snakes”
    4:39
  5. 5.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: V. Intermezzo
    3:57
  6. 6.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: VII. Nocturne
    7:02
  7. 7.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: IX. Wedding March
    5:00
  8. 8.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: Xa. Funeral March
    1:01
  9. 9.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: XI. Dance of the Clowns
    1:49
  10. 10.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61: Finale. “Through the House”
    4:48

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