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Felix Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
Kurt Masur conducting Mendelssohn’s own orchestra, the Gewandhaus, Leipzig:
Felix Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music (sourced from a number of different recordings):
Overture Op. 21
Incidental Music Op. 61
No. 1 Scherzo – How now, Spirit!
No. 2 – Over hill, over dale
March of the Fairies – I know a bank
No.3 Song with chorus Come now a roundel “You Spotted Snakes”
No. 4 – What Thou See’st When Thou Dost Wake
Help Me, Lysander, Help Me! – No. 5 Intermezzo
On The Ground – No. 7 Nocturne
Her dotage now I do begin to pity – no. 8 – Be as thou wast wont to be
No. 9 Wedding March
No. 11 A Dance of Clowns
No. 13 Finale – Through the house give glimmering light”
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