Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Brüggen, Orchestra of the 18th Century

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  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Overture (op. 21, 1826) and incidental music (op. 61, 1842) to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Orchestra of the 18th Century (on period instruments) and Gulbenkian Choir, conducted by Frans Brüggen.
    1 Ouverture. Allegro di molto - 00:00
    2 Scherzo. Allegro vivace - 12:27
    3 Allegro vivace - 17:17
    4 Song with Chorus: Allegro ma non troppo - 18:29
    5 Allegro appassionato - 22:47
    6 Con moto tranquillo - 26:25
    7 Wedding March: Allegro vivace - 32:19
    8 Marcia funebre: Andante comodo - 37:11
    9 A Dance of Clowns: Allegro di molto - 38:13
    10 Finale: Allegro di molto - 39:53
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  • @inesmartins3050
    @inesmartins3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It was marvelous to record this piece with this magnificent orchestra, with the enormous sensibility of Franz Brüggen. One of the most beautiful tours I've made with the gulbenkian Choir and this Orchestra.

    • @raystanczak4277
      @raystanczak4277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is my favorite interpretation of one of my favorite pieces-particularly that amazing choral section-and I’ve been looking for around fifty years! The story is happy, goofy, sweet, and a little dark. Hard to capture that, but you all did.
      Thank you Ines-Loved it, and I’ll be passing it along!

    • @shin-i-chikozima
      @shin-i-chikozima 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your specutacular comments is effulgent

  • @matthewwhitehouse301
    @matthewwhitehouse301 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Horns and Bassoons in the 6th movement are utterly breathtaking

  • @ryohagitani892
    @ryohagitani892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Full of variety in the intruments' tone. The most beautiful rendition of the Menderlssohn's work I have ever listened. A totally new experience of the work. Thank you Muzikay and Mr Bruggen and his orchestra!!

  • @pa31753
    @pa31753 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:04 is the most beautiful chord I have ever heard

  • @jsh31425
    @jsh31425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thank god for period instruments. In most recordings I've heard, the strings dominate in the overture! Here the balance is wonderful. I really appreciate this recording.

    • @ryohagitani2601
      @ryohagitani2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wood and brass are also very eloquent.

    • @raystanczak4277
      @raystanczak4277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was very interesting. I used to play a flute, and sometimes you can barely hear them in the scherzo. It has some amazing flute music, but it’s easy to overwhelm. On this recording, I hear every note-and there are many!
      This is probably how Mendelssohn intended it to be played. I wouldn’t be surprised, because it also happens to be my favorite interpretation after many decades of enjoyable searching and listening. It’s nice to know some of what makes this such a great interpretation. Thanks.

  • @brachydactyl7534
    @brachydactyl7534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    the clarity is admirable

    • @daniel3231995
      @daniel3231995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the moderate tempo is perfect too. period ensembles are generally.

    • @Kris9kris
      @Kris9kris 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daniel3231995 It's not. The overture is way off Mendelssohn's metronome marking, which is MM=84 in the four-hands arrangement. Granted, Mendelssohn's markings are warp speed fast (in his chamber music too), and almost nobody adheres to them, but I expect an "authentic performance" to take it seriously. He was very picky about it too, saying that any musician with half a brain could determine the tempo of a given piece accurately.

    • @daniel3231995
      @daniel3231995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kris9kris cause thats for 4 hands duh? all works that old likely don't keep faith entirely to composer intentions due to interpretive choices and no recordings.

    • @CaradhrasAiguo49
      @CaradhrasAiguo49 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kris9kris the four-hands arrangement published by Breitkopf is in Allegro vivace Common time, whereas the original is Allegro molto in Cut time imslp.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream,_Op.61_(Mendelssohn,_Felix)

    • @Kris9kris
      @Kris9kris 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CaradhrasAiguo49 It's exactly the same music though, just written out in semiquavers, quavers and crochets. Maybe it is for practical reasons so pianists wouldn't have to turn pages every 20 measures.

  • @phosphorus1975
    @phosphorus1975 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The best performance ever.

    • @willyorchard8977
      @willyorchard8977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you heard the Philadelphia Orchestra's version under Eugene Ormandy?

    • @daniel3231995
      @daniel3231995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      abbado's is also a notable mention

  • @zoefang4563
    @zoefang4563 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LOVE you Midsummer Night

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This masterpiece invigorates the human spirit ,
    Immeasurable mystery
    Unfathomable attraction Great performance
    Incomparable conductor
    Exquisite melody
    Fabulous performers with splendid skill and wonderful technology
    This is my favorite work .
    From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

    • @inesmartins3050
      @inesmartins3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In 1995, with this same Orchestra, we, Gulbenkian Choir, made a tour on Japan, 15 concerts, singing the Symphony No. 9, Beethoven.
      I had never heard the bass layers of the music until then. The musical transparency of Bruggen's interpretation always leads us to discover more and more in music. Whatever she is. ❤️

    • @shin-i-chikozima
      @shin-i-chikozima 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@inesmartins3050
      Thank-you so much to your wonderful and impressive comments
      Take care of yourself
      Good luck !
      Thank-you
      素晴らしいお便りありがとう❗

  • @corrado1675
    @corrado1675 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Grazie! Un bravissimo direttore. Musica splendida.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse ปีที่แล้ว

    This composer is a brilliant reflection of an era. It’s a phantom asteroid who returns to set his sights on sound art. A stupendous wave laden with paradoxes from which obscurantism and the irrational escape, hypnotic factors defying vulnerable souls in search of the infinity. His musical architecture is a translucid and short tunnel that leads to light

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mendelssohn is a great Alchemist of the dream
    Without this masterpiece ,
    Mendelssohn's world would have been very lonely ,
    the enjoyment and pleasures of Mendelssohn's mussorgsky world would have been less ,
    I would feel that Mendelssohn's music world is like the taste of stale beer
    From
    Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

  • @robertmackinnon9666
    @robertmackinnon9666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great performance and also like the art work. Thanks for posting !

  • @maxlinder5262
    @maxlinder5262 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is screwed up with ALL the commercial interruptions .....

  • @andrewpfeiffer6218
    @andrewpfeiffer6218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    anybody else keep expecting Scheherazade to start at those opening woodwind chords?

  • @daniel3231995
    @daniel3231995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tysm again muzikay listened whole thing this dawn. Could conjure some images of the tomfoolery in this story but can't help thinking how similar it sounds to mozart overtures

  • @ThreadBomb
    @ThreadBomb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I just realised -- they're singing in English!

    • @daniel3231995
      @daniel3231995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Couldn't understand

    • @jimp4170
      @jimp4170 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's fairly common. And the original Shakespeare is preferable to a translation, no matter how you look at it.

    • @syxalite
      @syxalite 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimp4170 What do you mean original? The piece was written in German

    • @jimp4170
      @jimp4170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@syxalite I'm sure my meaning is fairly clear. Mendelssohn used a German translation of Shakespeare. The meter is the same, but the translation can't be as good as Shakespeare's original. That's why a good number of performances revert to the original English.

    • @syxalite
      @syxalite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimp4170 Ah I see, I didn't know that. That makes sense then

  • @ThreadBomb
    @ThreadBomb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bruggen's recordings of Mendelssohn's symphonies are worth hearing, especially Symphony No. 3 (actually the last one written).
    th-cam.com/play/PLJmef0gHN9dhAS5yYigxD2oBJvwa6L_-n.html

  • @stevemsteven6103
    @stevemsteven6103 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know if the trumpets at 14:24 are using hand-stopping or lipping but it sounds very particularly badass

  • @kailyhnpham6633
    @kailyhnpham6633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    is this by felix mendelssohn?

    • @adamfarley2860
      @adamfarley2860 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's actually his greatly underrated half brother Carl Philipp!

    • @engelbertschoormans
      @engelbertschoormans ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adamfarley2860 😂

  • @bruceanderson5538
    @bruceanderson5538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you must be a fool before you are a king, saith Jordan Peterson. Consider Lucius in The Golden Ass. It is the reason generations cannot ever progress: the fear of ridicule and scorn overwhelms individual growth. The Almighty Ass, not totally impenetrable if we but cherish our ignorance yet proceed..

  • @rodolfohuerta7022
    @rodolfohuerta7022 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bottom: STOP HUGGING ME, IT'S BEEN LIKE HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE YOU HUGGED ME!!! 😠
    Titania: I don't care, I still like you. 😊
    *Bottom rages like crazy*