Once a month, ‘An Early Evening Stroll’ focuses on youth works by Felix Mendelssohn.
Today, we will listen to pieces he composed when he had reached the “ripe” age of 17. Alongside an inspiration for Felix, Carl Maria von Weber’s overture ‘Oberon’, we will hear two contrasts: his concert overture ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, full of sound paintings, a revolutionary piece at the time that further opened the door to Romanticism. And an archaic, but greatly composed ‘Te Deum’, interspersed with references to long-dead composers such as Handel, Mozart, and Gabrieli.
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture Oberon
Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ op. 21
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado
Felix Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8 (1826)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius
Felix Mendelssohn: Klavierstück G major, fragment
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
