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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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I haven't heard this all the way through for ages and since instrumental suites and just the overture got all the airplay (back when there was airplay) I never made the connection before. There are no coincidences.
I played in a Summer Theatre pit orchestra for 2 weeks worth of performances once so when Mendelssohn's duet "spotted snakes" commenced I thought I was hearing Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, and Pitti-Sing. The Mikado comes along 40 years later so I guess we know who borrowed what.
This DG-138959 is a later release without Tulips but still sounds great. That's about 4 winners in a row now after decades of avoiding DG because of poor recording quality. The miking is still a little suspect on these, though.
Seems like a great performance without fussy tempo changes or other nuisances of some conductors. I read where Mendelssohn was against 'Radical' composers so a "what's on the page" reading of his works would make the most sense.
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Topic - Moving along to the Midsummers Nacht Dream, or, How did The Three little Maids From School get in? - kitch29 12:23:12 02/22/17 (4)
- Mendelssohn's influence on Sir Arthur Sullivan - rbolaw 13:53:43 02/22/17 (3)
- RE: How clever of me to find it independently ;-} nt - kitch29 17:04:44 02/22/17 (2)
- Yes, good ear. - rbolaw 17:56:36 02/22/17 (1)
- RE: Yes, good ear. - fstein 20:38:15 02/22/17 (0)
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