A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 3 Song with Chorus (Lied mit Chor): You spotted snakes with double tongue. Allegro ma non tropp
A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 5 Intermezzo: Allegro appassionato - Allegro molto comodo
A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 3 Song with Chorus (Lied mit Chor): You spotted snakes with double tongue. Allegro ma non tropp
A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 5 Intermezzo: Allegro appassionato - Allegro molto comodo
A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 3 Song with Chorus (Lied mit Chor): You spotted snakes with double tongue. Allegro ma non tropp
A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61, MWV M13: No. 5 Intermezzo: Allegro appassionato - Allegro molto comodo
This sumptuous package does not quite deliver what it advertises: the enclosed program, with Blu-ray video disc, was recorded over three nights at the Philharmonie in Berlin. It does, however, provide a fitting close to the career of Claudio Abbado, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1990 until May of 2013, when the music here was recorded. The lengthy booklet is almost worth the price of admission by itself, containing cogent reflections regarding how Abbado's regime differed from that of his autocratic predecessor, ...
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This sumptuous package does not quite deliver what it advertises: the enclosed program, with Blu-ray video disc, was recorded over three nights at the Philharmonie in Berlin. It does, however, provide a fitting close to the career of Claudio Abbado, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1990 until May of 2013, when the music here was recorded. The lengthy booklet is almost worth the price of admission by itself, containing cogent reflections regarding how Abbado's regime differed from that of his autocratic predecessor, Herbert von Karajan, as well as a delightful survey of the shifting relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and Hector Berlioz, the composers of the two works on the program. The pairing of the music from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (the overture plus excerpts from the incidental music) and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is unusual but makes brilliant sense in terms of capturing diverse currents of Romantic music, and the 80-year-old Abbado was, true to form, finding new...
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