Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, was completed 16 years after he wrote the Overture, Op. 21. The consistency of style and musical unity between them belie the disparate dates of composition. The overture was by an incredibly musically gifted youth of 17, and the incidental music was by the music director of Prussia's King Friedrich Wilhelm IV's Academy of the Arts and the
had always been a favorite of Felix and his sister, Fanny. The commission for the remaining music came from the King, for a Potsdam production of the play, one of several commissions for theatrical music Mendelssohn received while in this post. The producer of the play was Ludwig Tieck, one of the translators of the definitive German version of the play, the same version that the Mendelssohns had enjoyed and absorbed thoroughly as their own.
The incidental music consists of 14 sections, including the overture. There are vocal sections and instrumental movements. The vocal selections include the song "Ye spotted snakes" and the melodramas "Over hill, over dale," "The Spells," "What hempen homespuns," and "The Removal of the Spells." The melodramas served to enhance Shakespeare's text. The remaining sections are primarily cues. The music combines the traditional forms and structures of Classical music with the feeling and expression of the Romantic era. Throughout the sections, Mendelssohn sprinkles themes and motives pulled from the earlier overture to create coherence.
The instrumental movements, Scherzo, Intermezzo, Notturno, and the "Wedding March," are usually excerpted with the overture for orchestral concert performance. The Scherzo appropriately introduces the fairy-world of Act Two with rapid, running passages in the woodwinds, similar to the string passage in the opening of the overture, both set in a minor mode. The rest of the orchestra joins the woodwinds in a Classical sonata-form movement. Several small motives are repeated, up and down, then down and up the scale, to form the development section. The Intermezzo represents the confusion encountered as Hermia awakes, with a swirling melody buffeted about by the orchestra. The rustic players enter jauntily, represented by the bassoons and ending the Intermezzo in the major. A German Romantic horn melody is the theme of the Notturno. The music evokes the dreams of the couples as Puck puts right his previous mischief. The "Wedding March" opens with that oh-so-familiar trumpet fanfare, fitting for the Duke of Athens' wedding. Two trio sections are separated by the opening theme; the final occurrence of the main theme includes twittering flutes and strings, suggesting the fairies' part in the matchmaking. The "Finale" returns to the overture for most of its sparkling material, ending with the same four woodwind chords that begin the entire work.
Although some consider Mendelssohn's work to be lightweight and uninspired, the entirety of
proves otherwise in its inventiveness in reviving his older material and in its expression. ~ Patsy Morita, All Music Guide
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| Orchestral Excerpts for Cello With Spoken Commentary |
1997 |
| Orchestral Excerpts for Clarinet |
1994 |
| Orchestral Excerpts for Flute |
1996 |
| Orchestral Excerpts for Violin |
1998 |
| Orchestral Hors d'oeuvres on the Longwood Gardens Organ |
1993 |
| Orchestral Lollipops |
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| Organ Bon Bons |
1998 |
| Organ Classics |
1990 |
| Organ Giants |
2000 |
| Organ History: The Organ Transcription in France |
1999 |
| Organ Spetacular |
1991 |
| Organic Shakespeare |
2004 |
| Otto Klemperer conducts Mendelssohn, Haydn |
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| Over 50 Most Treasured Melodies |
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| Oxana Yablonskaya Plays Rachmaninoff |
1993 |
| Paper Music |
1995 |
| Partners in Life and Music |
2005 |
| Perfect Autumn Wedding |
2005 |
| Perfect Spring Wedding |
2005 |
| Perfect Summer Wedding |
2005 |
| Perfect Wedding |
2005 |
| Perfect Winter Wedding |
2005 |
| Philippe Herreweghe: By Himself [Includes DVD] |
|
| Philippe Herreweghe: Portrait |
1997 |
| Piano Prelude: Classical Masterpieces |
1999 |
| Piano by Candlelight Favorites |
1996 |
| Pictures at an Exhibition and Other Favourites |
2006 |
| Pomp on Parade |
|
| Pops Stoppers |
1959 |
| Power Classics! Volumes 1-10 |
1994 |
| Power Classics! Volumes 1-5 |
1994 |
| Power Classics, Vol. 4 |
1994 |
| Power Classics, Vol. 5 |
2005 |
| Precious Moments: Wedding Collection |
2000 |
| Processional & Reflective Music for Weddings |
2001 |
| Pure Classical Chillout |
2004 |
| Quiet Time Classics (Box Set) |
2004 |
| Quiristers of Winchester College |
|
| RCA Victor Basic 100 Series: No. 63: Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suites |
1995 |
| Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: Solo Works and Transcriptions |
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| Rachmaninov plays Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Debussy |
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| Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov |
2009 |
| Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions |
1993 |
| Radiance 2: A Classic Wedding |
2004 |
| Rafael Kubelik: Rare Recordings 1963-1974 |
2006 |
| Really Mad About The Classics |
1994 |
| Requiem |
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| Ritratto di Carlo Sabajno Volume 1: Il periodo acustico (1905 - 1920) |
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| Ritratto di Carlo Sabajno, Vol. I - Le incisioni acustiche [1905-1920] (A Portrait of Carlo Sabajno, Vol. I - The Aco |
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| Romantic Classics |
1994 |
| Romantic Classics for Unforgettable Moments |
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| Romantic Classics, Vol. 1 |
2000 |
| Romantic Classics, Vol. 2 |
2001 |
| Romantic Classics: Quiet Moments |
2006 |
| Romantic Days (Box Set) |
2001 |
| Romantic Evening Music (Box Set) |
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| Romantic Evening Music for Horn |
|
| Romantic Favorites |
1997 |
| Romantic Journey |
1989 |
| Romantic Moments (Box Set) |
2000 |
| Romantic Moments, Vol. 5 |
|
| Romantic Moments: Classical Music for Lovers (Box Set) |
2000 |
| Romantic Wedding Music on the Harp |
2001 |
| Romantic Wind |
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| Romantique: Dreams of Love |
2006 |
| Romantisme: L'âge d'or du (The Golden Age of Romanticism) |
2005 |
| Rudolf Kempe Conducts Brahms and Mendelssohn |
2002 |
| Saint-Saens/Mendelssohn: Orchestral Music |
1992 |
| Schubert & Mendelssohn |
1996 |
| Schubert, Auber, Mendelssohn and others... |
1997 |
| Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde |
1995 |
| Schubert: Symphony No.8/Rosamunde/Marche Militaire/Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream/Ruy Blas |
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| Seasons: The Greatest Hits |
1999 |
| Sensual Classics |
2001 |
| Serenade |
1990 |
| Serenade: A Classical Wedding Collection |
2008 |
| Serge Rachmaninoff, Vol. 2 |
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| Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings |
1992 |
| Sergei Rachmaninov |
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| Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Recital |
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| Shakespeare's Greatest Hits |
1990 |
| Silver Screen Classics, Vol. 1 |
1995 |
| Silver Screen Classics, Vols. 1-10 |
1995 |
| Silver Screen Classics, Vols. 1-5 |
1995 |
| Simply Summer |
2006 |
| Simply the Best Marches |
1998 |
| Sir John Barbirolli |
1999 |
| Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert |
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| Sir Thomas Beecham Favorites 1934 - 1940 |
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| Sir Thomas Beecham: Vintage Beecham |
1993 |
| Smooth Classics (Box Set) |
2000 |
| Smooth Classics: A Delightful Afterglow |
2000 |
| Smooth Classics: Nocturnes |
|
| Soft Lights-Sweet Music |
1993 |
| Sounds of Silence: Relaxation and Meditation with Classical Music |
2000 |
| Sounds of Silence: Relaxation and Meditation with Classical Music (Box Set) |
2000 |
| Sounds of the Forest and Rainforest Symphony Sooth |
2002 |
| Stars & Stripes And Other Symphonic Marches |
1997 |
| Sublime Harmonie: Victorian Musical Boxes |
1982 |
| Summer Classics |
1998 |
| Summer Passion |
2000 |
| Sunday Morning Classics |
1994 |
| Sweet Baby Dreams and Baby's First Music |
2003 |
| Sweet Dreams [CBS/Sony] |
1989 |
| Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos; Mendelssohn: "Midsummer Night's Dream" Scherzo |
1997 |
| The 1st Classical Promenade |
2007 |
| The Art Of Transcription |
1994 |
| The Art of the Transcription |
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| The Basic Seasons |
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| The Best Relaxing Classics [Best Buy Exclusive] |
2005 |
| The Best Traditional Wedding Music [2005] |
2001 |
| The Best of Classical |
2002 |
| The Best of Mendelssohn |
1994 |
| The Best of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
1996 |
| The Best of Moonlight Classics |
2001 |
| The Best of the Classics |
|
| The Bridal Collection: With This Ring |
2002 |
| The Classic Salon |
1999 |
| The Classical Collection (Box Set) |
2003 |
| The Classical Wedding Album |
1995 |
| The Collection, Volume 1 |
|
| The Complete Rachmaninov Recordings 1937-43 |
1995 |
| The Complete Solo Piano Transcriptions And Arrangements Of Sergei Rachmaninoff |
1995 |
| The Complete Wedding Album |
1998 |
| The Essential Wedding Collection |
2004 |
| The Four Seasons: A Musical Calendar of Favourite Classics |
|
| The Greatest Classical Collection, Vol. 2 |
|
| The HMV Classics Collection: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter |
1994 |
| The Horn |
|
| The InStyle Wedding Collection: Beautiful Music for Your Big Day |
2005 |
| The Instruments of Classical Music (Box Set) |
2001 |
| The Instruments of Classical Music, Vol. 1-5 (Box Set) |
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| The Instruments of Classical Music, Vol. 4: The Horn - Corno da Caccia |
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| The Knot Collection of Ceremony & Wedding Music |
2006 |
| The Legend of the Orchestra |
2009 |
| The Lighter Side of the Classics |
|
| The Magic Flute of James Galway |
1992 |
| The Mendelssohn Experience |
2008 |
| The Mengelberg Edition, Vol. 5 |
|
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music (Box Set) |
2001 |
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music (Collectors Edition) (Box Set) |
2002 |
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music, Vol. 1-10 (Box Set) |
1998 |
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music, Vol. 1-5 (Box Set) |
2001 |
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music: Blue Danube |
1998 |
| The Most Beautiful Melodies of Classical Music: Winter Dreams |
1998 |
| The Most Famous Classics |
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| The Most Unforgettable German Classics Ever |
2000 |
| The Only Classical Album You Will Ever Need |
2007 |
| The Organ Album |
|
| The Oxford Book of Wedding Music |
1995 |
| The Pupils of Liszt |
|
| The Quiristers of Winchester College sing Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart & Schubert |
1988 |
| The Romantic Age of the Classics |
1992 |
| The Romantic Age of the Classics, Vol. 4 |
1992 |
| The Romantic Classics |
2000 |
| The Royal Golden Jubilee: Music from Westminster Abbey |
2002 |
| The Royal Golden Wedding |
1997 |
| The Royal Treasury of Classical Music [Box Set] |
|
| The Royal Treasury of Classical Music, Vol. 4 |
|
| The Royal Wedding 1947 Princess Elizabeth and Edinburgh |
2002 |
| The Telarc Collection, Vol. 8: The Artistry Of Yoel Levi |
1993 |
| The Top 10 of Classical Music, 1842-1853 |
1998 |
| The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Box Set) |
1991 |
| The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 |
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| The Ultimate Bride Guide |
|
| The Ultimate Classical Wedding |
2005 |
| The Ultimate Classics |
2001 |
| The Ultimate Classics: Eternal Essentials |
2004 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Album |
1995 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Album [Delta] |
2005 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Album [Polygram] |
1995 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Album [Syle] |
2006 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Collection |
1997 |
| The Ultimate Wedding Collection [Madacy 2005] |
2005 |
| The Very Best Of Romantic Favorites |
1994 |
| The Very Best of Classical Music for Your Life (Box Set) |
2004 |
| The Wedding Album |
1991 |
| The Wedding Album [RCA 1990] |
1990 |
| The Wedding Collection: Classical/Party/Love |
2006 |
| The Wedding Favorites You Love |
2005 |
| The Wonderful World of Classical Music (Box Set) |
|
| The World of Wedding Music |
1992 |
| The World's Favorite Music |
1986 |
| The Yellow Guide-Classical Music |
|
| The Young Firebrand |
1994 |
| This is Classical Music |
2008 |
| Time Out |
2000 |
| Time Out Classics (Box Set) |
2000 |
| Time Out Classics, Vol. 1 |
2000 |
| To Have and to Hold [Savoy Jazz] |
2005 |
| Toccata & Fugue, Great Organ Works |
1984 |
| Top 10 of Classical Music: Romantic |
1995 |
| Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Box Set) |
2001 |
| Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Collectors Edition) (Box Set) |
2002 |
| Top Ten of Classical Music (Box Set) |
1995 |
| Toscanini Conducts Weber, Mendelssohn, Sibelius |
|
| Toscanini In London 1935-1939, Vol. 1-6 |
|
| Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic, 1926-36 |
|
| Toscanini e l'Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala |
2001 |
| Toscanini: Gli Anni Della Maturita |
|
| Traditional Wedding Music |
2005 |
| Transcriptions Live |
2004 |
| Traum Klassik, Vol. 3 |
|
| Trilogy: Classical Works of the Great Masters |
|
| Trio Voronezh |
1999 |
| Tågen letter |
2008 |
| Ultimate Ballet |
|
| Ultimate Classical Chill Out |
2007 |
| Ultimate Classical Dreams [Box Set] |
2009 |
| Ultimate Mendelssohn: The Essential Masterpieces [Box Set] |
2008 |
| Ultimate Wedding Album [St. Clair] |
2004 |
| Ultimate Wedding Collection: Disc 3 |
2007 |
| Unforgettable Classics: Romance |
1997 |
| Unforgettable Classics: Tranquility |
1998 |
| Unforgettable Classics: Wedding Classics |
1997 |
| Unforgettable Summer Classics |
1999 |
| Unforgettable: Marches |
1997 |
| Victorian Vision |
2001 |
| Vintage Beecham |
1993 |
| Virtuoso Romantic Masterpieces for Piano |
|
| Vocalise |
1998 |
| Wedding & Romantic Favorites You Love |
2006 |
| Wedding Album [Premium] |
1998 |
| Wedding Album [RCA 1998] |
1998 |
| Wedding Bouquet |
1997 |
| Wedding Classics |
2006 |
| Wedding Classics [Precious Memories] |
2007 |
| Wedding Classics: The Ideal Soundtrack for a Great Wedding Celebration |
2001 |
| Wedding Collection [Madacy] |
1997 |
| Wedding Day: Complete Guide to Wedding Music |
1991 |
| Wedding Essentials |
2003 |
| Wedding March |
2001 |
| Wedding March & Others |
2004 |
| Wedding Music |
|
| Welte-Mignon Piano |
2001 |
| Whatever Works [Original Soundtrack] |
2009 |
| Witches' Brew |
1993 |
| With This Ring |
2004 |
| Woody Allen Classics |
|
| Work Out: Music of Energy and Power |
1998 |
| World Classics: Germany |
1998 |
| World Orchestra For Peace 10th Anniversary |
2005 |
| World Orchestra For Peace: The First Ten Years, 1995-2005 - Solti, Gergiev [CD+DVD] |
2005 |
| World's Greatest Classics |
2005 |
| World's Greatest Encores |
1989 |
| World's Greatest Marches |
1995 |
| World's Greatest Marches [Pro Arte] |
1990 |
| Zen Classics |
2008 |
| Zzzzzz ... |
2003 |
