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Paul Wranitzky

Overture to the Singspiel "Oberon, King of the Fairies"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major KV 467
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Performers
Riccardo Minasi Conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder Piano
Ladies of the Saxon State Opera Chorus Dresden

William Shakespeare's enchanted forest is the inspiration for this program. Paul Wranitzky's overture "Oberon, King of the Fairies" from 1789 takes us into a world of fairy tales and nocturnal fantasy. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major K. 467 also combines luminous elegance and lyrical tranquillity - with the famous Andante, which is one of the composer's most intimate inspirations. The solo part is played by the great Mozart interpreter Rudolf Buchbinder. With the incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created one of the most poetic Shakespeare interpretations in music history in 1843: a resounding panorama between a dance of fairies, love confusion and nocturnal magic.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy:
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

"The magical sounds of Mendelssohn and the effervescent energy of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' put me in a festive mood as an orchestral musician; lightness, naturalness, joy, but also melancholy give this music a special sublimity. The transparency of the score demands absolute concentration on the interplay in its rhythmic and tonal sophistication. When this tingling joint music-making arises, it feels wonderful to be part of a whole as a musician."

Susanne Branny
Member of the 1st violins

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