Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 & A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sunlight and summer night
Since the outset of his long career, the Catalonian viol player, conductor and musicologist Jordi Savall has been searching for authentic period sound. His interest is as great as the huge repertoire that he covers with his own ensembles, irrespective of whether he is performing medieval music or the effervescent works of Felix Mendelssohn.
The composer must have had a remarkably sunny disposition: his music is marked by irresistible lightness, finesse and an effortless treatment of compositional ideals. As a young man, the Hamburg native visited Italy as part of the educational journey customary at the time, and brought many vivid impressions back with him which he incorporated into his Fourth Symphony: a score full of sunlight that is with good reason one of his best-loved works. Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s »A Midsummer Night’s Dream« is full of dreamlike nocturnal escapades; the composer was only 17 when he wrote the overture.
Performers
Le Concert des Nations
La Capella Nacional de Catalunya vocal ensemble
Ārt House 17 speakers ensemble
Thomas Höft dialogue director
Flore Van Meerssche soprano
Diana Haller mezzo-soprano
conductor Jordi Savall
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 »Italian«
– Interval –
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
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