Symphony no. 3 "Scottish" / Symphony no. 5 "Revelation"

Album by Felix Mendelssohn & Staatskapelle Dresden & Sir Colin Davis

Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" is the third symphony by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, completed in 1842, and Symphony No. 5 "Reformation" is his fifth symphony, completed in 1830. Both are large-scale orchestral works of the Romantic era: the Third evokes Scottish landscapes through modal melodies, atmospheric orchestral textures and an expanded harmonic palette that mark a mature phase in Mendelssohn's symphonic output, while the Fifth is more contrapuntal and chorale-like, drawing on Protestant liturgical material and historic forms to engage with past musical models.

Symphony no. 3 "Scottish" / Symphony no. 5 "Revelation" by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - album cover

First released: 2005

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1.
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish": I. Andante con moto
14:53
2.
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish": II. Vivace non troppo
4:24
3.
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish": III. Adagio
10:42
4.
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish": IV. Allegro vivacissimo
10:12
5.
Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation": I. Andante. Allegro con fuoco
12:24
6.
Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation": II. Allegro vivace
6:48
7.
Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation": III. Andante
3:54
8.
Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation": IV. Andante con moto. Allegro vivace
9:31