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Special offer. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Flore van Meersche, Diana Haller, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
the sense that we are back in Mendelssohn’s day, hearing it all for the first time, is magical. The music’s sense of struggle and the text’s slight am-dram quality conspire to add to an atmosphere...
Special offer. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Flore van Meersche, Diana Haller, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
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the sense that we are back in Mendelssohn’s day, hearing it all for the first time, is magical. The music’s sense of struggle and the text’s slight am-dram quality conspire to add to an atmosphere...
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A new CD-book by Jordi Savall. The most comprehensive recording of Mendelsohn’s masterpiece with a cast of English and German actors.
Contents and tracklist
Felix Mendelssohn, William Shakespeare:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21 (1826): I. Ouverture (Allegro di molto)
Work length13:04
- Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya
- Jordi Savall
- Maia Jemmett, Wendy Morgan, Geoffrey Carey, Flore van Meerssche (soprano), Diana Haller (mezzo-soprano), Gavi Singh Chera, Matt Penson, Shanaya Rafaat
- Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya
- Jordi Savall
Awards and reviews
January 2025
the sense that we are back in Mendelssohn’s day, hearing it all for the first time, is magical. The music’s sense of struggle and the text’s slight am-dram quality conspire to add to an atmosphere of another age. Is this genuinely Mendelssohn’s Shakespeare? Quite possibly.
December 2024
there’s an almost baroque grandeur to his phrasing and tempos that yields up some wonderfully poetic moments. The Nocturne becomes a sort of sarabande, with plump, stately horns.
