Dream of Midsummer

Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988)

Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 63:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # VC 7 90725-2 | Recorded: 1987

If there is one Mendelssohn symphonic recording that makes the case for a more favorable reassessment [of the composer], it's this pairing of the Italian Symphony and some of the Midsummer Night's Dream music by Sir Charles Mackerras…. The clarity of texture here [in the Symphony] is extraordinary, even when the brass and winds add their clout. As a result, every line of Mendelssohn's orchestration comes through clearly, leaving a listener with a renewed respect for this composer's inventiveness…. The Midsummer Night's Dream music is even more miraculous….

CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream  Movies

Posted by at April 27, 2022
CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream

CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)
Fairies, magic, celebration and comical confusion! Join Swashbuckle's Cook and Line as they help William Shakespeare put together a magical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Filmed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, the production features lots of CBeebies favourites, including Justin Fletcher as Nick Bottom - the star of the play within a play who undergoes a magical transformation! Whoever heard of a talking and singing donkey? English
Fantasy  Romance  Family 
Quadriga Consort - Midsummer (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Quadriga Consort - Midsummer (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:16 minutes | 1,3 GB
Classical | Label: deutsche harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

"On A Cold Winter's Day", the first dhm album of the Quadriga Consort, became a bestseller, and the other albums of the ensemble were praised everywhere for their special repertoire and the successful interpretation: "Some songs move to tears, others almost invite you to dance. (…) Timeless beautiful." (WAZ)
VA - Kubrick's Music: Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick (2018)

VA - Kubrick's Music: Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 711 MB
5:07:24 | Stage & Screen, Classical, Soundtrack | Label: Cherry Red

UK collection that is comprised of musical selections from Kubrick's central masterpieces, complimented by pieces which the director used as 'temp tracks' during the production and by all accounts with every intention of using these in the film, only to decide to replace them late on. In 2001, the scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (used for scenes of weightlessness) and Vaughan Williams 'Antarctica Suite' (for the Stargate effects and scenes on the moon) were both used in preview showings of the film before being discarded. While on Eyes Wide Shut, Wagner's 'Lieder I'm Triebhaus' ('In the Greenhouse') from Wesendonck Lieder was a significant theme in the production for more than a year before being replaced. We have also assembled the complete vintage ballroom music from The Shining. The final movement from Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique', with it's epic use of the chant from the Roman Catholic Requiem mass, the 'Dies Irae', and a Sibelius piece, 'Valse Triste'. Both were important to the evolution of the film. Finally, as a young man, Stanley Kubrick fell in love with Sergi Prokofiev's score for the Sergei Eisenstein's first sound film, Alexander Nevsky. He played it to death, and it would inspire him later in his own use of dramatic music. From the scintillating recording by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago SO, we include the movement, 'Battle On the Ice'.
VA - Kubrick's Music: Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick (2018)

VA - Kubrick's Music: Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 711 MB
5:07:24 | Stage & Screen, Classical, Soundtrack | Label: Cherry Red

UK collection that is comprised of musical selections from Kubrick's central masterpieces, complimented by pieces which the director used as 'temp tracks' during the production and by all accounts with every intention of using these in the film, only to decide to replace them late on. In 2001, the scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (used for scenes of weightlessness) and Vaughan Williams 'Antarctica Suite' (for the Stargate effects and scenes on the moon) were both used in preview showings of the film before being discarded. While on Eyes Wide Shut, Wagner's 'Lieder I'm Triebhaus' ('In the Greenhouse') from Wesendonck Lieder was a significant theme in the production for more than a year before being replaced. We have also assembled the complete vintage ballroom music from The Shining. The final movement from Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique', with it's epic use of the chant from the Roman Catholic Requiem mass, the 'Dies Irae', and a Sibelius piece, 'Valse Triste'. Both were important to the evolution of the film. Finally, as a young man, Stanley Kubrick fell in love with Sergi Prokofiev's score for the Sergei Eisenstein's first sound film, Alexander Nevsky. He played it to death, and it would inspire him later in his own use of dramatic music. From the scintillating recording by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago SO, we include the movement, 'Battle On the Ice'.
Edward Gardner, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Pike - Mendelssohn in Birmingham, vol.4 (2016)

Edward Gardner, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Pike - Mendelssohn in Birmingham, vol.4: Violin Concerto; Incidental Music to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 67:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHSA 5161 | Recorded: 2015

Felix Mendelssohn did visit the city of Birmingham several times, but the Chandos label's Mendelssohn in Birmingham series refers for the most part to these contemporary performances by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner. If you've been interested in trying out an item from the series, this one can be recommended strongly. The low-key, lyrical approach of conductor Gardner works beautifully in these two pieces. Especially effective is the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, in the hands of violinist Jennifer Pike: she catches the novel role of the soloist in this concerto in a way that bigger performances do not.

National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream  Movies

Posted by at June 26, 2020
National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream

National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019)
A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.

«Midsummer’s Mayhem» by Rajani LaRocca  Audiobooks

Posted by Gelsomino at Feb. 27, 2020
«Midsummer’s Mayhem» by Rajani LaRocca

«Midsummer’s Mayhem» by Rajani LaRocca
English | ISBN: 9781982689476 | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 38m | 210.0 MB
Irene Cantos, Peter Phillips, Noemí Teruel Serrano, Guiomar Novaes - Mirages. Hidden Treasures of Classical Piano (2023)

Irene Cantos, Peter Phillips, Noemí Teruel Serrano, Guiomar Novaes - Mirages. Hidden Treasures of Classical Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:40:07 | 959 / 638 Mb
Genre: Classical

As a composer, she has explored various genres of music for film. She composed the soundtrack for the promotional video of the new building for the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Malaga created by the architect Eduardo Pérez Gómez. She has also composed a piece for piano quintet for Lynn University (Florida), which will be premiered in both the USA and Italy.
V.A. - Fifty Shades of Lounge Vol. 2: 50 Smooth & Sexy Chill Tunes 4 Erotic Moments (2016)

V.A. - Fifty Shades of Lounge Vol. 2: 50 Smooth & Sexy Chill Tunes 4 Erotic Moments (2016)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,81 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 683 MB | Front cover
Genre: Chillout, Downtempo, Lounge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Manifold Records

Manifold Records presents Fifty Shades of Lounge Vol. 2: 50 Smooth & Sexy Chill Tunes 4 Erotic Moments. 50 excellent Chillout tracks from DJ Maretimo, Jazzy James Jr., Cafe Americaine, Noise Boyz, Orange Music, Kid Coconutz, Cinematic and others.