This recording was made live on February 16, 2016, at the Barbican, London, using DSD 128fs technology.
Composition History
Mendelssohn composed the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at just 17 years old, inspired by Shakespeare's comedy.
Compositional Technique
The Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream is a tone poem that brilliantly depicts characters like fairies, Duke Theseus's court, and the lovers, using a sonata-form structure.
Composer Biography
Felix Mendelssohn, the composer, was the grandson of Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and the son of an influential German banker.
Composer Biography
Mendelssohn's childhood home in Berlin was a vibrant intellectual salon, hosting scientists, philosophers, actors, writers, and musicians.
Cultural Impact
The 'Wedding March' from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream has become the most ubiquitous wedding march ever written.
Composition History
The incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream was commissioned 16 years after the overture by the King of Prussia for a production of the play.
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