Description:

The young Mendelssohn was a polymath who painted, argued philosophy, and devoured the works of Shakespeare and other literary giants. So it was natural that he should take on the task of creating incidental music for the Bard's peerlessly silly comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream: The result was some of the most scintillating music of his career. In his second set of subscription concerts of the season, Maestro Frühbeck de Burgos presents selections from Mendelssohn's Incidental Music, complete with soloists and women's chorus, and balances the program with Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade, a dazzlingly orchestrated rendering of tales from A Thousand and One Nights.

Related Concerts:

• March 18, 2010
  Beethoven's "Eroica"
• March 20, 2010
  Beethoven's "Eroica"
• April 15, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• April 17, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• June 04, 2010
  Dutoit Conducts Strauss

Audio Samples:

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Sheherazade

Concert Enhancements:

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Program Notes:

February 05, 2010 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Masterworks Collection, and package Friday Evening 6A

Part of the 2010 Weekday Collection, and package Friday Evening 6A