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A cult recording!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 08/10/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"An immortal work of art owes much of its immortality to the fact it possesses different meanings for succeeding generations; this admirable thought of the musical critic Wily Haas allows us to understand in its excel magnitude the outstanding combination nothing random of words and music joined by this weird phenomena of synchronistic enrapture.



As a matter of fact, it results very hard to think about any other composed endowed of such admirable vision to depict with absolute accuracy the atmosphere, enchantment and hedonistic environment this magisterial score based on Shakespeare' s Midsummer Night's Dream.



This exultant version under Rafael Kubelik's brilliant conduction is one of my two desert island' s choices, the other is the mesmerizing version of Ferenc Fricsay during the Fifties.

Kubelik impressed the score of that required magical fire and prodigal fantasy to deal with this material so beloved for many listeners.



In this sense, I would say that Mendelssohn illuminated the febrile creative mood of Hector berlioz.

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