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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian' & A Midsummer Night's Dream / Ein Sommernachtstraum (1988)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian' & A Midsummer Night's Dream / Ein Sommernachtstraum (1988)
  • Title: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian' & A Midsummer Night's Dream / Ein Sommernachtstraum
  • Year Of Release: 1988
  • Label: Virgin Classics
  • Genre: Classical orchestral
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 01:03:15
  • Total Size: 274 MB
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Tracklist:

Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 'Italian'
01. Allegro vivace
02. Andante con moto
03. Con moto moderato
04. Saltarello: Presto
A Midsummer Night's Dream
05. Overture, Op. 21: Allegro di molto
Incidental Music, Op. 61 (Excerpts)
06. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
07. L'istesso tempo
08. Allegro vivace
09. Intermezzo: Allegro appassionato
10. Nocturne: con molto tranquillo
11. Clowns' Dance: Allegro di molto
12. Wedding March: Allegro vivace

If there is one Mendelssohn symphonic recording that makes the case for a more favorable reassessment [of the composer], it's this pairing of the Italian Symphony and some of the Midsummer Night's Dream music by Sir Charles Mackerras…. The clarity of texture here [in the Symphony] is extraordinary, even when the brass and winds add their clout. As a result, every line of Mendelssohn's orchestration comes through clearly, leaving a listener with a renewed respect for this composer's inventiveness…. The Midsummer Night's Dream music is even more miraculous…. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offers the best movements of the incidental score, and it plays them with the same combination of transparency and ebullience that it brings to the symphony.


Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian' & A Midsummer Night's Dream / Ein Sommernachtstraum (1988)



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