Original title: Musik zu Ein Sommernachtstraum.
Scoring: two sopranos, female chorus and orchestra, with spoken melodramas. Composition date: 1842-43.
Text / literary source: August Wilhelm...Read more
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Original title: Musik zu Ein Sommernachtstraum.
Download sheet musicScoring: two sopranos, female chorus and orchestra, with spoken melodramas. Composition date: 1842-43. Text / literary source: August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) after William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Original language: English ; German. Incidental music for Shakespeare’s play in August Wilhelm Schlegel’s German translation, commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia and staged in Potsdam on 14 October 1843. The separate overture, Op. 21, dates from 1826 and precedes the complete music. An orchestral suite of selected numbers is not the full incidental score. Collapse 
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
(conductor),
Thomas Hampson
(baritone),
Pamela Coburn
(soprano),
Uwe Heilmann
(tenor),
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Overture, Op. 21; 1. Scherzo; 3. Lied mit Chor; 5. Allegro appasionato; 7. Con moto tranquilo; 9. Hochzeitsmarch; 11. Ein Tanz von Rupeln; Finale. Recorded: July 1992, Graz.Read moreCollapseOverture, Op. 21; 1. Scherzo; 3. Lied mit Chor; 5. Allegro appasionato; 7. Con moto tranquilo; 9. Hochzeitsmarch; 11. Ein Tanz von Rupeln; Finale. Recorded: July 1992, Graz.
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