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Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music, Op. 61
Prologue (Narration) “Ay Me! For Aught That I Could Ever Read”
No 1: Scherzo
No 2: L’istesso Tempo
No 2a: Allegro Vivace
No 3: Lied Mit Chor
No 4: Andante
No 5: Allegro Appassionato
No 7: Nocturne (Con Moto Tranquillo)
No 8: Andante
No 9: Hochzeitmarsch (“Wedding March”) & No 12: Allegro Vivace Come Primo
Finale: Allegro Di Molto
Credits And Introduction
Symphony No 1 In C Minor, Op 11
I. Allegro Di Molto
II. Andante
III. Scherzo: Sempre Pianissimo E Leggiero (1829 London Version Third Movement)
III. Menuetto: Allegro Molto (1824 Original Third Movement)
IV. Allegro Con Fuoco
Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music, Op. 61
Prologue (Narration) “Ay Me! For Aught That I Could Ever Read”
No 1: Scherzo
No 2: L’istesso Tempo
No 2a: Allegro Vivace
No 3: Lied Mit Chor
No 4: Andante
No 5: Allegro Appassionato
No 7: Nocturne (Con Moto Tranquillo)
No 8: Andante
No 9: Hochzeitmarsch (“Wedding Marc h”) & No 12:Allegro Vivace Come Primo
Finale: Allegro Di Molto
Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music, Op. 61
Prologue (Narration) “Ay Me! For Aught That I Could Ever Read”
No 1: Scherzo
No 2: L’istesso Tempo
No 2a: Allegro Vivace
No 3: Lied Mit Chor
No 4: Andante
No 5: Allegro Appassionato
No 7: Nocturne (Con Moto Tranquillo)
No 8: Andante
No 9: Hochzeitmarsch (“Wedding March”) & No 12: Allegro Vivace Come Primo
Finale: Allegro Di Molto

notes

Recorded live 16 February 2016 in DSD 128fs, at the Barbican, London. Blu-ray contains audio in 24-bit/192kHz. Blu-Ray Pure Audio is available in 2.0 LPCM and 5.1 DTS-HD MA. Blu-Ray video is stereo only. SACD contains 5.1 and stereo mixes.

Bonus footage of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1 is included on the Blu-Ray since it was recorded the same night as A Midsummer Night's Dream. The full DSD recording and 5.1 audio of that symphony can be found on LSO0769.

Booklet in English, French and German.

credits

Choir – The Monteverdi Choir
Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Conductor – John Eliot Gardiner
Edited By – Nicholas Parker
Engineer, Edited By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Neil Hutchinson
Liner Notes – Andrew Stewart (2), Lindsay Kemp
Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra
Performer – Alexander Knox, Ceri-lyn Cissone, Frankie Wakefield
Producer – Nicholas Parker
Recorded By – Jonathan Stokes

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