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Artist:
Felix Mendelssohn
Title:
Symphony No. 3 (45rpm-edition)



Details:
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture (The Hebrides ( ( (Fingals Cave () op. 26 Symphony No. 3 in A minor ( (The Scotch () op. 56 - The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Maag .. Richard Wagner once described his fellow composer Felix Mendelssohn as a painter of landscapes in music. Mendelssohn obviously had no objections to this judgment when he set off for England with the intention of +raking together+ folk melodies that he heard there. What he harvested during his travels only came to fruition twelve years later in the form of his (Scottish˜ Symphony now heard in this wonderful performance by Peter Maag and the London Symphony Orchestra. Maag's intelligent conducting retains a balance between magical romantic timbre and analytical objectivity whereby a wholly intentional underlying elegiac mood even spreads its veil over the hymnal third movement and the thrilling finale. His well-moulded interpretation is supported

Label: Decca

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 July, 2007