Mendelssohn A Midsummer night's dream op.61 - d'Avalos

J.Howart soprano, J.Rigby mezzosoprano, Bach Choir,
Philharmonia Orchestra Francesco d'Avalos

[@alexanderdonahoe8708]

He wrote this at 17, what a gifted human.

[@sajeeranasinghe5026]

He is also a brilliant conversationalist in 4 languages!!!!

[@catherinejones9396]

Ever a favourite since I was very young (70++ years ago). Lovely to hear it so well mastered. Thank you.

[@Lengo67]

THIS is the definition of GRAND! Oh my! I love this! It takes me places I didn't know exist! Absolutely stellar!

[@lymanmj]

My little pet theory about Shakespeare's play is that he decided to pack more into this, under the guise of a fantasy sequence, than any of his other plays. It is a multi-faceted gem that refracts differently each time one gazes upon it. Mendelssohn does this masterpiece justice.

[@doyleperkins4916]

The greatest aria and chorus in the whole symphony...

[@DeweyLonguski]

Overture 00:00 1. 11:30 2. 16:11 3. 18:15 4. 22:45 5. 23:35 6. 26:58 7. 32:14 8. 38:26 9. 40:33 10. 45:00 11. 46:29 12. 48:04 Finalle. 48:48

[@rorypenstock1763]

Thanks

[@andrewjayklatt]

Favorite music of my father Benjamin S. Klatt of blessed memory. RIP/QEPD Warsaw, Poland, 1915 - New York , New York, 1967

[@zoefang4563]

My favorite of all the bard's plays

[@lymanmj]

Moi aussi. I think it is Shakespeare's little illusion within an illusion that he packed more into this "light" "comedic" play than in any other. I suspect Mendelssohn may have have felt the same way.

[@afm62]

I haven't listened to this for several years. Hearing it again makes me remember how much I love it.

[@nocturnallsnake4228]

same here

[@Nooticus]

@@nocturnallsnake4228 Same here! ^

[@nickwright6034]

Thank you, Jean, for this outstanding performance. We met, once, in the early 1990s when you returned to EGS to open officially the "music block". I was based on the first floor of the building in T16, the hub of the English Department. Your concert recital in the school hall was truly unforgettable! Many happy memories and thanks, NW, formerly Head of English, EGS.

[@mano64mano1]

Prezado Lázaro Sim. A Midsummer...... é realmente mágica. Nos leva a um mundo espetacular vivido por fadas, gnomos e que na realidade somos nós mesmos. Sou professor do Ensino Médio e tive a oportunidade de ter meus 38 alunos apresentando esta música para uma platéia de 420 pessoas, todos com suas vestes, alegria e amor à vida. Mendelssohn é a pura essência da música.

[@lpedrino1]

Lindo não? Imaginar que não dão muito valor a essas obras primas no Brasil. Espero que um dia isso mude, pois é adorável de se ouvir musicas como essa.

[@wideernie]

Heavenly from beginning to end.

[@s.v.7332]

The overture has always been one of my favorites, and I can easily picture this dream from something of the likes of Greek or Roman mythology.

[@user-il1vr9lu9e]

見ていないのに、目を閉じるとその姿が見えてくる。 聴いていて想像をさせてしまう作品と演奏。 録音も保存も良い！！！

[@sthrwars]

The Overture is fabulous.

[@lucasgust7720]

It's incredible, amazing, unbelievable...

[@leungyatchun9552]

He wrote it when he was 17..

[@windstorm1000]

just had a full month of Shakespeare everything here in santa fe--first folio, readings, you name it was bewildering----bard and Mendelsohn would have loved it.

[@masakoyokota4815]

I watched the performance of New York City Ballet at the Lincoln Center last week. The collaboration of Mendelssohn's master piece and choreography was breathtaking. No.7 Notturno is my favorite. Ah, transcendent...I don't have words to express its beauty.

[@lymanmj]

I'm definitely with you on this, Masako.

[@josuelguinez498]

This is truly one of the greatest.. It always offers a full array of sensation, something that music too seldom achieves.

[@QueenZsWorld]

wow you know it's deep when someone starts using vocab words that haven't been used since 1950

[@korallvoros2396]

meraviglioso, siete un maestro della musica romantica

[@dougweiskopf7768]

I listen to this every year thru the month of July

[@Shadowman4710]

I think I'll start doing that from now on.

[@Gusrikh1]

Beautiful.

[@j.e.8442]

Beautiful music, colorful ballet

[@critter7052]

Simply lovely, thanks for posting!

[@benaheide]

Magnificent interpretation

[@marievvvful]

Whenever I hear this music, I feel thrilled. Fantastic!!

[@dankurth4232]

김정화 listen to his Octet and you will feel the same

[@willemvanloon5536]

beautiful music, happy to heur it!!!

[@sporty1701]

Magnificent!!!

[@ndklskgisiiiyyy5449]

This is fabulous.

[@kamchonfai]

So goodnight with lullaby!

[@GianniFranceschi]

Sto ascoltando l'Ouverture. Ogni tanto c'è qualcuno che rende a Mendelssohn quel che gli spetta, senza farlo diventare un compositore da donnette o da mentecatti. Bello!

[@kingkong1111100]

This music is one of my favorites since I was little. Seeing the Los Angeles Phil playing it at The Hollywood Bowl in two weeks! Never knew it had a choral part before noticing voice soloists listed on the Bowl program. Most of the recordings are of 5 pieces of "Incidental Music". Beautiful.

[@MegaPiranaha88]

I just went as well! Loved every second of it, Gil Shaham was wonderful on the concerto too!

[@paulozilio2193]

I ‘m in love with intermezzo

[@myApexTV]

Best music ever.

[@MichaelGallagherSculpting]

My Garden this night, 21st June 2019, is alive with Faeries Dancing. es Mushrooms, n Beauty…….Celebrating MidSummer in the Walled Garden with Tiny and my Shadow and the Continuous Daylight which will remain around my little cottage all through the wee small hours. Already it is 11:45pm and it is as bright as it was at 5pm. This is, and always will be, my most Favourite Day of the Year. Better than any day no matter what. Off I go to enjoy sitting on my swing chair and enjoy the Puckin Madness of this Continous Light. ***** ***** ***** **** *** ** *

[@QueenZsWorld]

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Whenever I am listening to this masterpiece, I feel like 　I'm in this midsummer night This masterpiece will slake the thirst of the soul

[@Tearstojoy]

Bravo, bellissimo. Merci.

[@Wessgomes]

Masterpiece!

[@whatsup3798]

Mendelssohn the ultimate classical genius. The best you can get.

[@JebBushHimself]

Whats Up I dare to say he's even more precocious than Mozart

[@PBundy-jc3wp]

Love Shakespeare's plays, Mendelssohn's music both by Felix and his sister Fanny. All geniuses cut off in the prime of life.

[@thamcharoenmusic]

16:42 Elfenmarsch 18:19 Lied 23:35 Intermezzo 32:13 Notturno 40:33 Wedding 46:30 Tanz

[@nellacalderone6613]

bello

[@QueenZsWorld]

11:36 is another song as well. Thanks for the list!

[@rosiemwhit]

11:30 = Scherzo

[@ryanl9902]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@thijmenkrijgsman2417]

I don’t like this music. Yes i agree mendelsohn was a genius but i don’t like this piece. And because we and my ocestra now play the hebrides of him it didn’t made my love for his compositions better. I realy like his violin concerto in d minor

[@dick12235]

Thanks: Wonderful Mendelssohn: Brain loved it.

[@DidiChama]

awesome music thanks

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

El sueño de una noche de verano...Magnifico

[@patrickogrady9418]

Ive never heard the entire collection of the incidental music that he wrote for this play. Aside from the wedding march that is most familiar to people, there seems to be Handel thrown into the mix just briefly. The overture remains one of my favorite pieces still.

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

Sublime!

[@dawnlowenstein8825]

I especially enjoy the Wedding March!

[@slakva.school]

Симфоническая музыка Мендельсона абсолютно гениальна!

[@lucy0584]

bellismo questo pezzo

[@adelinopereira4645]

Codi Linder love your play on words .

[@jeanjacques1987]

moins connue mais tout aussi génial , sa soeur Fanny qui a due rester dans l ombre pour faire place a son Felix .

[@lorenzoc.b.9809]

Esto es, lo que se suele decir, una obra de arte.

[@davidkoval6415]

This is Genius!

[@gmtkymars]

I bought this album.

[@colinfaragher5373]

This, of course, was the inspiration for Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe which was illuminated by electric light at the Savoy Theatre. That must have seemed magical in itself in 1881.

[@johnparven6187]

What I like about Mendelssohn and Handel is I can understand their choral work because it's in English. Bach Mozart, Verdi, are all great but since I don't speak German or Italian I don't get to follow along. For example in Magic Flute by Mozart, I have no idea what is being sung by the Queen of the Night but I love that song lol.

[@Hutya]

23:37 Intermezzo 32:11 Notturno 40:31 Wedding

[@CeciliaCkey]

Flute solo at 15:36

[@elghamalidenetkaitos7435]

Hermoso

[@humanadeniebla]

Maravilloso

[@whj6dryden]

Woody Allen was so smart to include this piece in his movie, "A Midsummer's Nights Sex Comedy."

[@lorastoeva8972]

Allan Junker uy

[@JFGecik]

This work, which Mendelssohn completed at the age of 33 in 1842, is also indexed as MWV M13.

[@ghgdtgzxfg6960]

At 9:30 the change in instrumentation makes it sound so weird

[@huinitang1636]

Just love it! I want to study a music minor right now!!!

[@kittykitty7063]

I like Felix Mendelssohn

[@xyz_2147]

supper!!!

[@dmitriyleshchev5848]

00:27 г.п. 1:11 г.п №2 2:08 поб.п. 2:47 поб.п №2 3:00 закл.п 3:25 - разработка 5:50 - реприза 9:17 - кода

[@Assadul-Naml]

Eine Sternstunde der Musik

[@rturoo5439]

ese menistro de torrente y la d'elsy.....

[@thomasball8832]

I'm not sure what it is about Mendelssohn's work but it is as if he was writing classical music in the 19th century with a 20th century ear ? he must have been a genius with that kind of artistic vision.

[@deanyoung9313]

Actually, Mendelssohn is considered conservative for his time.

[@deanyoung9313]

Respect to your opinion, however.

[@jacobsalomon5820]

Well I'm sure glad he didn't have a 20th century pen! Nothing by the modernists is as listenable as classical and romantic period music! Purely my opinion, heavily influenced by my ear. ;-) And yes, I think we can all agree he was a genius.

[@Pawels233]

These are also my thoughts. I consider Mendelssohn being one of the most forward-thinking composers of all times, late XX-century like (the last movements of this piece, for instance, are extremely post-modern, aren't they?).

[@meinerHeld]

What do you mean?

[@cratippo]

excellent work!! could you write down the title of every episode of the composition according to the time?

[@TheBobbyboy64]

"The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania," 1849, by Sir Joseph Noel Paton

[@mrbillings7239]

I once knew a woman named Titania, she had massive teats

[@pseudo_klavier]

40:34 my best ☺☺

[@ladylavenderr]

32:14 magical ❤️

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

I'm so glad you find this magical too. It is one of my favorite pieces.

[@JonathanGonzalez-ti7jv]

Uffff 💚

[@3281Anonymous]

How fortunate for the world that he was not born a century later, if you catch my drift.

[@3281Anonymous]

3281Anonymous And think of what an incalculable loss to the world that people like him were born when and where they were a century later..

[@denboertim]

I'm sorry I don't really catch your drift! Would you care to elaborate?

[@tonymostromable]

Nazi Genocide of German Jews.

[@rinkichamkar]

Indeed. Not just that, but imagine the DESCENDENTS of the unfortunate murdered souls who never came into being - Maybe one may have cured cancer, one may have invented a new kind of light bulb .....

[@konadbenz3383]

rinkichamkar souls cannot be murdered , only bodies all is one so they are around everywhere

[@salvocali4040]

Ottima esecuzione

[@compulsoryevacuationdevice]

Nocturne's too fast on this recording...that's a rare thing to hear from me. This is one of the few pieces in history that is so beautiful, you just have to play it slower and make it last.

[@jeremywheeler5522]

Totally agree

[@lincolny2220]

Dark Mendelssohn, show me a Midsummer Night's Nightmare.

[@diaanite]

midsummer murders

[@diaanite]

he wrote this to his mothers unrest spirit..

[@diaanite]

he was to proclcme the peace through some sonate.

[@lorastoeva8972]

Abraham Liytncoln #vh

[@Assadul-Naml]

Red dragon

[@eyalihoo]

TODA TODA TODA TODA TODA TODA TODA RABA . THANKS A LOT .

[@aaronmuzaffar5407]

I'm his 1000 sub

[@Boccaccio1811]

14:31 - 14:37 sounds exactly like part of Mazeppa by Liszt

[@baptiste667]

Nice i am playing this sheet in the orchestra

[@diaanite]

what instrument?

[@baptiste667]

Flute and piccolo

[@diaanite]

Baptiste Marie that is great. You must use earplugs

[@flaviaregina3608]

É daí a musiquinha do casamento

[@DanTheMan0922]

What's the part at 18:40 called?

[@SuperPeacebreaker]

11:30

[@kkampy4052]

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon Miranda and Titania, Neptune Titan, the stars can frighten.....

[@camerondeemer6549]

Never forget Obi wan had the high ground

[@Assadul-Naml]

But Anakin will still try

[@Evan-xp9uh]

Should I mention that I hate sand?

[@Killerbee4712]

@@Assadul-Naml People will underestimate his power

[@John_Doe....]

love the part starting 11:30 (Red dragon)

[@Valhallen002]

+John Doe Scherzo

[@Assadul-Naml]

I love how one of the most brutal and psychotic villains in Cinema history is still into this sweet Music.

[@skyejog4039]

3Q! LIKE IT

[@dora.ysh06]

I love the music but hate doing the personal reflection #RCMTheory7

[@voxel_bonedisk]

Any help finding a version of this without the awful clipping?

[@TheBobbyboy64]

I think Act II, scene 2, "The Fairies sing."

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

What a fantastic orchestrator Mendelssohn was: as far as I know, he along with Berlioz, pioneered the virtuoso, coloristic, "fairy scherzo." Probably influenced countless composers from Wagner, to Raff, to Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and beyond.

[@pipipapiu2]

the bessssssst 45:00

[@sheilaleslie1323]

Got your drift anonymous! Heard a brilliant story in Prague. Hitler ordered Mendelssohn's bust to be removed from the Rudolphiniam. The soldiers didn't know which one was Mendelssohn so in their "wisdom" they removed the one with the biggest nose! Wagner!

[@sesfilmsllc]

Sheila Leslie Wow that’s actually funny.

[@sesfilmsllc]

Since both were anti Semitic.

[@wwmadi]

not only that, but Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer.

[@Saruman38]

As amusing as that story sounds, it's actually apocryphal. It comes from a novel by a Czech author published after the war. In reality, while there is a statue of Mendelssohn on the roof of the Rudolfinum, there's never been a statue of Wagner.

[@dougweiskopf7768]

Yes, that's a true story, the Nazi officer who ordered the bust smashed was the infamous Col. Heydrich, who designed the Final Solution for the Jews. He was assassinated by partisans in his car not far from where Wagner's bust was smashed, which was a nice touch of kharma!

[@TheCAPTAINDESTROYER]

Who's the painting by? Love it

[@CHarveyFan1]

I love this painting too. It's by Joseph Noel Paton and entitled "The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania"

[@pietvanhees9294]

Was Mendelssohn the first to play that wedding tune in this piece? Now you hear it at every wedding, and I was wondering if this piece is the first public appearance of that tune.

[@zarathustrasserpent1850]

Yes, that's Mendelssohn's music. And that other wedding music is Wagner's.

[@SilvanBennett]

Yes, Mendelssohn composed the wedding march. As he had a very good relationship with Queen Victoria of the British Empire whom he often visited and played music with (he played the piano and she sang), Queen Victoria had it introduced as the wedding march for royal weddings, where it gained massive popularity which lasted up to this day. In connection with the visits Mendelssohn payed to Victoria I would like to note that he would always bring a new piece for them to play. Sometimes he would also bring a piece by his sister Fanny Hensel. As she was a woman it was very difficult for her to be successful as a composer although she was also extremely talented. After Queen Victoria had said how much she liked the music, Felix Mendelssohn would then tell her that the piece was actualy by his sister. The love for his sister went so far, that when she died, he himself died of sorrow just a short time afterwards. Sadly his jewish roots led to a defamation campaign by the Nazis, led by Wagner who himself had taken much inspiration from Mendelssohn. His reputation never quite recovered in Germany. Also in Britain he was denounced as Mendelssohn stood for the Victorian era and after Queen Victorias death in an attempt to leave this period behind, also Mendelssohn was often denounced or considered a trivial and non inovative composer.

[@andreww2553]

Silvan Bennett, thank you for that illustrative historical background. It is an insightful capture of Mendelssohn’s life.

[@philippeIIauguste]

Whose work is it we see on the screen ?

[@potrelviewer9536]

And I thought it was going to be the German version... Any version in Goethe's language?

[@dankurth4232]

Aurélien Beauchêne Shakespeare‘s language isn’t that bad either. And the dramatic part is by Shakespeare and not Goethe! There is of course a German translation „Mitsommernachtstraum“. But Mendelssohn used the English ‚Libretto‘

[@rickbunte3147]

I suppose I could look this up on Wikipedia, but does anyone know how old he was when he wrote the overture?

[@orrendinwiddie2549]

14 or 16 can't remember

[@allanhoheisel7211]

+Rick Bunte 17

[@DavidHassell2004]

17 I believe