Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony Orchestra

2017

John Eliot Gardiner offers a thrilling reading of Shakespearean proportions with this energetic production of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Spoken and sung interludes trade off with fluttering, spritely instrumental movements, creating a truly compelling, almost operatic tableau. The Monteverdi Choir sings with dazzling dexterity.

Allegro di molto

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

6:22

Tempo primo

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

5:54

"Ay Me! For Aught That I Could Ever Read"

John Eliot Gardiner, Alexander Knox

1:03

No. 1, Scherzo

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Knox

4:17

No. 2, L'istesso tempo

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Knox, Ceri-lyn Cissone

3:32

No. 2a, Allegro vivace

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Knox, Frankie Wakefield

2:12

No. 3, Lied mit Chor

Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Ceri-lyn Cissone

4:40

No. 4, Andante

Frankie Wakefield, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Ceri-lyn Cissone

1:41

No. 5, Allegro appassionato

Alexander Knox, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Ceri-lyn Cissone

4:19

No. 7, Nocturne. Con moto tranquillo

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

6:11

No. 8, Andante

Frankie Wakefield, Alexander Knox, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Ceri-lyn Cissone

3:18

No. 9, Hochzeitmarsch "Wedding March" - No. 12, Allegro vivace come primo

Alexander Knox, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

5:12

Finale. Allegro di molto

Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Frankie Wakefield, Alexander Knox, Ceri-lyn Cissone

6:25

Felix Mendelssohn

Composer
John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor
Monteverdi Choir

Chorus, Ensemble, Choir
London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra
Alexander Knox

Artist

Nicholas Parker

Producer
Jonathan Stokes

Recording Engineer
Neil Hutchinson

Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer