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Philippe Herreweghe - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1994)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: 25 Jan 2020 09:00:23

This 1994 recording of most of Mendelssohn's incidental music from Ein Sommernachtstraum coupled with his Fingal's Cave Overture was one of Philippe Herreweghe's first with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, one of the first French romantic period instrument orchestras, and it was almost but not quite a success. While the Orchestre's sound is fresh and appealing with characterful winds, warm brass, and sweet strings, it is also an odd and sometimes ungainly sound with perhaps overly pungent clarinets and bassoons, possibly overly raw horns and surely occasionally scrappy strings. And while Herreweghe is clearly an adept and insightful conductor and these performances are full of wonderful touches – the shades of color in the Nocturne for example, or the hints of parody in Marcia funebre – he can't altogether manage to unify the performance and the piece tends toward sprawl. Still, the disc is worth hearing by those who know and love the works – and that, of course, should include every fan of nineteenth century German Romantic music – if for no other reason than to hear an approximation of the sound of Mendelssohn's orchestrations performed on period instruments. Harmonia Mundi's sound is clear but oddly hollow, big but irrefutably empty.

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Track List:

01. Sommernachtstraum - Ouvertüre. Allegro di molto [0:12:27.58]
02. Sommernachtstraum - Scherzo. Allegro vivace [0:04:59.27]
03. Sommernachtstraum - Elfenmarsch. Allegro vivace [0:01:23.03]
04. Sommernachtstraum - Lied mit Chor "Bunte Schlangen, zweigezüngt !". Allegro ma non troppo [0:04:09.25]
05. Sommernachtstraum - Intermezzo. Allegro appassionato [0:03:32.52]
06. Sommernachtstraum - Notturno. Con moto tranquillo [0:05:33.30]
07. Sommernachtstraum - Hochzeitsmarsch. Allegro vivace [0:04:43.23]
08. Sommernachtstraum - Fanfare. Allegro comodo [0:00:27.05]
09. Sommernachtstraum - Marcia funebre. Andante comodo [0:01:18.47]
10. Sommernachtstraum - Ein Tanz von Rüppeln. Allegro di molto [0:01:46.03]
11. Sommernachtstraum - Finale "Bei des Feuers mattem Flimmern". Allegro di molto [0:04:56.15]
12. Ouvertüre 'Die Hebriden' - Allegro moderato - Animato [0:10:02.40]

Performers:
Sandrine Piau - soprano
Delphine Collot - soprano
Chœur de La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs Élysées [on period instruments]
Philippe Herreweghe - conductor

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