Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

Special offer. Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures

Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonytė (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor), Alexander Knox (Puck), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Titania), Frankie Wakefield (Oberon), Maria Joao Pires (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures

Special offer. Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures

Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonytė (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor), Alexander Knox (Puck), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Titania), Frankie Wakefield (Oberon), Maria Joao Pires (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Purchase product

Download

Audio formats guide

96 kHz, 24 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Original price ($26.00) Reduced price $18.25

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Original price ($20.75) Reduced price $14.50

320 kbps, MP3

Original price ($17.25) Reduced price $12.00

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now Hi-RES 96 kHz, 24 bit
Free 30 day trial

About

4 SACDs + Blu-ray Audio

LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this set offers listeners the definitive account of Gardiner’s unique take on Mendelssohn with the London Symphony Orchestra: a blend between the conductor’s wide-ranging expertise and the orchestra’s signature sound.

Contents and tracklist

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
Work length35:10
I. Allegro di molto
Track length10:14
II. Andante
Track length6:31
III. Scherzo. Sempre pianissimo e leggiero (1829 London Version)
Track length4:02
III. Menuetto. Allegro molto (1824 Original Version)
Track length6:18
IV. Allegro con fuoco
Track length8:05
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Work length1:03:57
I. Sinfonia a) Maestoso con moto
Track length11:45
I. Sinfonia b) Allegretto un poco agitato
Track length6:06
I. Sinfonia c) Adagio religioso
Track length6:25
II. a) Allegro moderato maestoso "Alles, was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn"
Track length4:09
II. b) Molto più moderato ma con fuoco "Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele"
Track length2:44
III. a) Recitativo "Saget es, die ihr erlöst seid durch den Herrn"
Track length0:52
III. b) Allegro moderato "Er zählet unsre Tränen"
Track length2:17
IV. Chor. A tempo moderato "Sagt es, die ihr erlöst seid"
Track length1:41
V. Andante "Ich harrete des Herrn"
Track length5:32
VI. Allegro un poco agitato "Stricke des Todes hatten uns umfangen"
Track length4:04
VII. Allegro maestoso e molto vivace "Die Nacht ist vergangen"
Track length4:17
VIII. a) Choral. Andante con moto "Nun danket alle Gott"
Track length1:32
VIII. b) Un poco più animato "Lob, Ehr und Preis sei Gott"
Track length2:55
IX. Andante sostenuto assai "Drum sing' ich mit meinem Liede ewig dein Lob"
Track length4:16
X. Schlusschor. Allegro non troppo "Ihr Völker! bringet her dem Herrn"
Track length5:22
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture, Op. 95
Work length7:15
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'
Work length37:47
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Andante con moto - Allegro un poco agitato
Track length15:01
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Vivace non troppo
Track length4:11
III. Adagio
Track length8:55
IV. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai
Track length9:40
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'
Work length26:58
I. Allegro vivace
Track length10:10
II. Andante con moto
Track length5:41
III. Menuetto. Con moto moderato
Track length5:47
IV. Finale (Saltarello). Presto
Track length5:20
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27
Work length11:47
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 'Reformation'
Work length28:05
I. Andante - Allegro con fuoco
Track length10:59
II. Allegro vivace
Track length4:46
III. Andante
Track length3:36
IV. Choral "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Andante con moto - Allegro vivace - Allegro maestoso)
Track length8:44
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
Work length9:59
Mendelssohn: Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op. 21: Allegro di molto
Work length6:19
Mendelssohn: Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op. 21: Tempo primo
Work length5:50
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
Work length42:53
"Ay Me! For Aught That I Could Ever Read"
Track length1:03
No. 1, Scherzo
Track length4:18
No. 2, L'istesso tempo
Track length3:32
No. 2a, Allegro vivace
Track length2:12
No. 3, Lied mit Chor
Track length4:40
No. 4, Andante
Track length1:41
No. 5, Allegro appassionato
Track length4:19
No. 7, Nocturne. Con moto tranquillo
Track length6:11
No. 8, Andante
Track length3:18
No. 9, Hochzeitmarsch "Wedding March" - No. 12, Allegro vivace come primo
Track length5:12
Finale. Allegro di molto
Track length6:27
View download progress

Download queue