A night of enchanting music at the Proms including an exciting semi-staged production of Mendelssohn’s masterpiece A Midsummer Night’s Dream, accompanied on the bill by Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto plus ...
Midsummer Night in HollywoodWe've got Mendelssohn for four strings lined up for later in the hour. First we hear Mendelssohn for orchestra. It's the Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, played by ...
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Part of the BBC Proms.In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer ...
Many commentaries on this work tend to focus on the fact that Mendelssohn wrote his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he was only seventeen, in contrast to the rest of the incidental music, ...
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