In 1826 Felix Mendelssohn, aged only seventeen, composed his famous overture to a Midsummer Night' Dream. He wrote incidental music for the same play sixteen years later, and effortlessly recaptured the world of his youthful imagination.
4 Act II Scene 1: Fairies' March - Ill Met By Moonlight (Oberon, Titania, Puck)
5 Act II Scene 2: Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Song (Titania) - Song with Chorus: Ye Spotted Snakes (First Fairy, Second Fairy, Chorus of Fairies)
6 Act II Scene 2: What Thou Seest, When Thou Dost Wake (Oberon, Puck)
7 Act II: Intermezzo
8 Act III Scene 1: Come, Sit Down, Every Mother's Son (Quince, Puck, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Titania, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed)
9 Act III Scene 2: I Wonder If Titania Be Awaked (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
10 Act III: Nocturne
11 Act IV Scene 1: Her Dotage Now I Do Begin to Pity? (Oberon, Titania, Puck, Theseus)
12 Act IV Scene 1: Wedding March
13 Act V Scene 1: So Please Your Grace, the Prologue Is Address'd (Philostrate, Theseus, Prologue, Pyramus)
14 Act V Scene 1: Funeral March: How Chance Moonshine Is Gone (Hippolyta, Theseus, Thisbe)
15 Act V Scene 1: A Dance of Clowns: The Iron Tongue of Midnight Hath Told Twelve (Theseus, Puck)
16 Act V Scene 1: Through the House Give Glimmering Light (Oberon, Titania)
17 Act V Scene 1: Song: Through the House Give Glimmering Light (Fairies) - Now Until the Break of Day? (Oberon, Fairies, Puck)
In 1826 Felix Mendelssohn, aged only seventeen, composed his famous overture to a Midsummer Night' Dream. He wrote incidental music for the same play sixteen years later, and effortlessly recaptured the world of his youthful imagination.
