Mendelssohn, Felix - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bramall, Anthony
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Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream was an early favourite of the Mendelssohn family and in 1826 Felix Mendelssohn had written an Overture, a musical summary of the play, inspired by the German translation of August Wilhelm Schlegel, brother-in-law of Mendelssohn's Aunt Dorothea, and by the beauty of a summer evening in the garden of the family house in Berlin. The incidental music to the later production of the play starts with this Overture. The Scherzo, a first entr'acte, depicts the gossamer elegance and the humour of what follows in the dispute between Oberon and his wife, the Fairy Queen, Titania. The Intermezzo is more human in its references to the lovers, taking refuge in the forest from parental disapproval, only to suffer the misunderstandings brought about by the well-intentioned interference of the fairies in their mortal world. The entr' acte ends with music for the rude mechanicals, the Athenian workmen who rehearse their solemn tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe in the forest, in preparation for performance at the wedding of Duke Theseus. The Notturno shows night in the forest, as the lovers sleep and Puck applies a magic potion to their eyes, so that when they wake all will be well and "every Jack shall have his Jill", and Titania, in the scene that follows, lavishes her bewitched affection on Bottom the Weaver, translated by Puck's spell into a donkey. The Wedding March celebrates the marriage of Duke Theseus to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, a match that provides a formal mortal framework for the enchantment at the heart of the play.
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Anthony Bramall & Oliver Dohnanyi.
Felix Mendelssohn
En Midsommarnattsdröm
1. Overture, Op 21
2. Scherzo, Op 61:1
3. Intermezzo, Op 61:2
4. Notturno, Op 61:3
5. Wedding March, Op 61:4
6. Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op 27
7. Ruy Blas, Op 95
8. Die Hebriden Op 26