| ›Sounds of Shakespeare‹
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture in E major, op. 21
Igor Stravinsky
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Erich Korngold
Much Ado About Nothing - Suite for Chamber Orchestra op. 11
Frank Bridge
There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Hector Berlioz
Les nuits d'été op.7: Excerpts
Dmitri Shostakovich
Hamlet: Suite from Incidental Music, op. 32a
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2nd Première Subscription Concert
17-02-2010, 8:00 PM
Bremen, The Glocke
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Alexander Shelley, Conductor
Anke Vondung, Mezzo-Soprano
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| When Mendelssohn composed his Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare veneration was at its peak. The British poet and dramatist inspired not only his writer colleagues during the Romantic period but its composers as well. His appeal is understandable. The vivid poetic language, lively characters, and narrative backgrounds embody musical elements and are an invitation to musical treatment. Innumerable settings reflect the wide spectrum of Shakespeare's ›invention of the human.‹ This program offers a fascinating selection - sound magician Korngold set the verbal wrangling of the lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Shostakovich devoted himself to the brooding Hamlet. In his Three Songs based on a four-note tone row, Stravinsky set the text of the Eighth Sonnet, the airy spirit's song from The Tempest, and the cuckoo's song from the comedy Love's Labor's Lost.
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