by Felix Mendelssohn, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado · Sony · CD · EAN 0074646282625
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«A Midsummer Night's Dream: Symphony No. 4» is the classical music album by Felix Mendelssohn, released by Sony Classical on CD.
The CD brings together the overture and the incidental music that Mendelssohn composed for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with narration by Kenneth Branagh and the voices of Sylvia McNair and Angelika Kirchschlager, alongside the Ernst Senff women's choir. It is completed by Symphony No. 4 in A major, the 'Italian', Op. 90. The Berlin Philharmonic is conducted by Claudio Abbado.
1996 release from the Sony Classical label, catalogue number SK 62826, with a total running time of 78:23.
A recording for fans of Romantic classical music and Shakespearean versions with a narrator, featuring actors such as Kenneth Branagh.
