Musique De Scène [CD de audio] Berliner Rundfunkchor, Felix Mendelssohn and Stefan Soltesz

Descripción del producto Felix Mendelssohn is associated with one brilliant score of incidental music for the theatre A Midsummer Nights Dream but in fact he composed scores for no less than 15 stage works.The most significant of them, including the three works in this set, date from the period when he was employed by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who was strongly attracted to the spirit of Romanticism and the culture of Greek antiquity. Mendelssohn was drawn to Sophocless tragedy Antigone by its strong dramatic sense and its universal themes, particularly Antigones pathos and heroism. In addition to setting several of the choruses, he composed interludes and background music for speeches and dialogues. His highly effective score is intensely noble and romantic yet also sensitive to the verse. His music for Sophocless Oedipus at Colonus moves further away from Athenian dramatic form, with accompanied recitative, solos and duets for the principal characters, and is more elaborat