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"

Alexander Knox, John Eliot Gardiner

1:03

No. 1, Scherzo

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Knox

4:17

No. 2, L'istesso tempo

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

3:32

No. 2a, Allegro vivace

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

2:12

No. 3, Lied mit Chor

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

4:40

No. 4, Andante

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

1:41

No. 5, Allegro appassionato

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

4:19

No. 7, Nocturne. Con moto tranquillo

London Symphony Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

6:11

No. 8, Andante

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

3:18

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

London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Knox, John Eliot Gardiner

5:12

Finale. Allegro di molto

John Eliot Gardiner, Frankie Wakefield, Monteverdi Choir, Alexander Knox, London Symphony Orchestra, 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
Neil Hutchinson

Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer
Jonathan Stokes

Recording Engineer