Name: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (with spoken text and melodramas in English) by James Judd
Brand: James Judd
SKU: 747313079476
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 3 (119 reviews)

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This version of Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream has the advantage of using all of his music for the play, including not only the famous set pieces, but the parts he wrote to underscore dialogue, performed with actors taking the spoken parts. It's intriguing to hear the music keyed precisely to the parts of the play for which it was originally intended. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Varsity Voices, Nota Bene, and soprano soloists Jenny Wollerman and Pepe Becker, led by James Judd, deliver a credible reading of the score. The balance favors the actors in the sections using spoken text, but is good in the set pieces.

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (with spoken text and melodramas in English)

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1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Overture

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act I: Scherzo

3. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act II Scene 1: How now, spirit! (Puck, Fairy)

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act II Scene 1: Fairies' March - Ill met by moonlight (Oberon, Titania, Puck)

5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act II Scene 2: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song (Titania) - Song with Chorus: Ye spotted snakes (First Fairy, Second Fairy, Chorus of Fairies)

6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act II Scene 2: What thou seest, when thou dost wake (Oberon, Puck)

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act II: Intermezzo

8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act III Scene 1: Come, sit down, every mother's son (Quince, Puck, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Titania, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed)

9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act III Scene 2: I wonder if Titania be awaked (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)

10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act III: Nocturne

11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act IV Scene 1: Her dotage now I do begin to pity… (Oberon, Titania, Puck, Theseus)

12. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act IV Scene 1: Wedding March

13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act V Scene 1: So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd (Philostrate, Theseus, Prologue, Pyramus)

14. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act V Scene 1: Funeral March: How chance Moonshine is gone (Hippolyta, Theseus, Thisbe)

15. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act V Scene 1: A Dance of Clowns: The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve (Theseus, Puck)

16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act V Scene 1: Through the house give glimmering light (Oberon, Titania)

17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, MWV M 13: Act V Scene 1: Song: Through the house give glimmering light (Fairies) - Now until the break of day… (Oberon, Fairies, Puck)

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