You might not have expected John Eliot Gardiner, with his weighty and self-consciously spiritual Bach recordings, to emerge as a conductor of the gossamer Mendelssohn (with the possible exception of the neo-Baroque Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 ("Lobgesang"), which he has in fact done well with). Yet here it is: he has conducted major Mendelssohn works in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, with nary a historical instrument in sight, and one of those concerts, featuring the Midsummer Night's Dream overture ...
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You might not have expected John Eliot Gardiner, with his weighty and self-consciously spiritual Bach recordings, to emerge as a conductor of the gossamer Mendelssohn (with the possible exception of the neo-Baroque Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 ("Lobgesang"), which he has in fact done well with). Yet here it is: he has conducted major Mendelssohn works in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, with nary a historical instrument in sight, and one of those concerts, featuring the Midsummer Night's Dream overture and incidental music, the most Mendelssohnian works of all, is offered here by the orchestra's own LSO Live label. And the results are more than satisfactory. The music on the album is taken from a single concert on February 16, 2016, with no editing or splicing involved, and it's at a consistently high level, even if the engineering pushes the strings a bit to the harsh side. This is rather muscular Mendelssohn that perhaps misses a certain spritely grace, but the shaping of the...
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