Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 (recorded in 1960)
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61 (recorded in 1960)
Heather Harper (soprano) & Janet Baker (contralto) / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 April 2016
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Otto Klemperer was very much a man of the theatre. "Here, opera and drama were truly united," he said of his time at Berlin's Kroll Theatre, a progressive and influential force in the heady years of the Weimar Republic. He was also a man with a sharp sense of humour: this performance of Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream both glows with enchantment and sparkles with wit.
This version contains the new 24-BIT digital remastering used for the Japanese SACD-hybrid version.
"I would say that Klemperer's revelatory Mendelssohn performance is the Midsummer Night's Dream music. It shows him at his greatest, and in an unaccustomed role." (MusicWeb)
