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孟德爾頌:仲夏夜之夢/聖保羅/芬加爾洞窟
愛德華．加德納 指揮
伯明罕市立交響樂團
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner
Edward Gardner’s Mendelssohn in Birmingham series continues with an album that collects eight overtures.
As on the previous volumes, a reduced-size CBSO joins Gardner in Birmingham’s Town Hall, where Mendelsohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres of his own orchestral works.
Mendelssohn composed the majority of the works in the programme as concert overtures, spanning the length of his career, from the early Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), composed when he was just sixteen, through to Ruy Blas, written towards the end of his life.
He composed two of these overtures as the opening movement of larger works: Paulus, his first great oratorio, from 1836, and Athalie, incidental music written for Racine’s play.
The ‘Trumpet’ Overture is the earliest work here, written possibly to precede a performance of Handel’s Israel in Egypt, and allegedly the favourite, among Mendelssohn’s works, of Mendelssohn’s father!
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Volume 5
1. Overture to 'Paulus', Op.26 (1832-36) * 6:32
(St Paul)in A major
2. Die schöne Melusine, Op.32 (1833-34, revised 1835) *
(The Fair Melusine)in F major
3. 'Trumpet' Overture, Op.101 (c.1825-26, revised 1833) * 8:38
in C major
4. The Hebrides, Op.26 (1830, revised 1832) * 9:50
(Die Hebriden)in B minor
5. Overture to 'Athalie', Op.74 (1842-44) * 8:00
in F major
6. Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op.21 (1826) * 11:25
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)in E major
Meeresstill und glückliche Fahrt, Op.27 (1828, revised 1834) † 11:48
in D major
7. Meersstille. Adagio 4:03
8. Glückliche Fahrt. Molto allegro e vivace - Allegro maestoso 7:43
9. Overture to 'Roy Blas', Op.95 (1839, revised 1844) 7:22
in C minor
Total time: 74:53 |
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