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Virgin Classics
Catalog #: 90725
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Number of Discs: 1 |
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| Notes & Reviews | Back to Top | ||||
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| "If there is one Mendelssohn symphonic recording that makes the case for a more favorable reassessment [of the composer], it's this pairing of the Italian Symphony and some of the Midsummer Night's Dream music by Sir Charles Mackerras.... The clarity of texture here [in the Symphony] is extraordinary, even when the brass and winds add their clout. As a result, every line of Mendelssohn's orchestration comes through clearly, leaving a listener with a renewed resepct for this composer's inventiveness.... The Midsummer Night's Dream music is even more miraculous.... The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment offers the best movements of the incidental score, and it plays them with the same combination of transparency and ebullience that it brings to the symphony." -- from The New York Times Essential Library - Classical Music: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings by Allan Kozinn | |||||
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | |||||
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Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian" by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||
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Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Period: Romantic Written: 1833; Germany |
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Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, in E major Op. 21 by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||
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Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Period: Romantic Written: 1826; Germany |
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Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Suite by Felix Mendelssohn | |||||
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Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Period: Romantic Written: 1842; Germany |
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