Mendelssohn / Gardner: Mendelssohn in Birmingham 5 - SUPER-AUDIO CD

Mendelssohn / Gardner: Mendelssohn in Birmingham 5 - SUPER-AUDIO CD

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Mendelssohn in Birmingham 5

Artist:

Mendelssohn / Gardner

Label:

Chandos

Product Type:

SUPER-AUDIO CD

UPC:

095115523520

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2019-06-07

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

HYBRID SACD

Edward Gardner's Mendelssohn in Birmingham series continues with a recording of Overtures. As with the previous volumes, a reduced size CBSO join Gardner in Birmingham Town's Hall, where Mendelssohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres of his own orchestral works. The majority of works in the programme were written as concert overtures, spanning the length of Mendelssohn's career from the early Midsummer Night's Dream composed when he was just 16 though to 'Ruy Blas' written towards the end of his lifetime. Two of these overtures were written as the opening movements of larger works: 'St Paul', his first great Oratorio from 1836, and his overture to 'Athalie', incidental music written for Racine's play. The Trumpet Overture is the earliest work here, written possibly to precede a performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt, and allegedly Mendelssohn's father's favourite piece!

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