Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream

Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Weller; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig; Masur

Composed by: Mendelssohn, Felix

This two-disc set brings together Felix Mendelssohn’s concert overtures, a genre for which the composer was particularly famed. The collection is preceded by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a concert overture only at first that Mendelssohn later expanded into incidental music to accompany Shakespeare’s play on which it is based; it is now counted among the composer’s most popular works. A wealth of performance talent is assembled for this release, with acclaimed conductors Walter Weller and Kurt Masur sharing the baton in these 1974 RSNO/Leipzig Gewandhaus recordings.

Price: $17.98