Is there a better piece of music by a teenager than Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream? I’ve not heard a HIP version of it before and the different balance between the smaller string section and the older design wind and brass makes for a quite different listening experience: the textures more transparent, the overall sound considerably rawer.
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The second movement of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3, Vivace non troppo, is probably the best of the nine individual tracks on the recording; it has everything I want to hear in Mendelssohn.
David Barker, Music Web International
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