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About Mendelssohn In Birmingham, Vol. 5
Edward Gardners Mendelssohn in Birmingham series continues with a recording of Overtures. As with the previous volumes, a reduced size CBSO join Gardner in Birmingham Towns Hall, where Mendelssohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres of his own orchestral works. The majority of works in the programme were written as concert overtures, spanning the length of Mendelssohns career from the early Midsummer Nights Dream composed when he was just 16 though to Ruy Blas written towards the end of his lifetime. Two of these overtures were written as the opening movements of larger works: St Paul, his first great Oratorio from 1836, and his overture to Athalie, incidental music written for Racines play. The Trumpet Overture is the earliest work here, written possibly to precede a performance of Handels Israel in Egypt, and allegedly Mendelssohns fathers favourite piece!
