Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish" / 2024 Remastered (ct.rc.: Peter Maag)

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Symphony #3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"
00:00 Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 "Scottish" - I. Andante con moto
13:12 Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 "Scottish" - II. Scherzo assai vivace
17:22 Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 "Scottish" - III. Adagio cantabile
28:27 Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 "Scottish" - IV. Allegro vivacissimo

London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Maag
Recorded in 1960, at London
New mastering in 2024 by AB for CMRR
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When Mendelssohn was starting out on what he was later to call his 'rough Scotch journey', he wrote to his family from Edinburgh this account of a visit to the Palace of Holyrood House : « In the evening twilight we went today to the palace where Queen Mary lived and loved; a little room is shown there with a winding staircase leading up to the door; up this way they came and found Rizzio in the little room, pulled him out, and three rooms Off there is the dark corner where they murdered him. The chapel close to it is now roofless; grass and ivy grow there and at the broken altar Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything around is broken and mouldering, and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found today in that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony. »

The letter is dated July 1829. Nearly thirteen years intervened between that moment of intense vision at Holyrood and the writing of the symphony, which was finished in 1842. Mendelssohn did in fact begin writing the symphony two years later in Italy, but was occupied also at that time with the Italian' symphony. The latter flourished in his mind, and the 'Scottish' symphony had to wait. And it was not until he was within five years of his early death at thirty-nine that he at last thought out the problem presented to his vision and mind that evening in Edinburgh and could finish the 'Scottish' symphony.

By then his vision of Scotland had faded, while his musicianship had increased and at the same time changed from youthful intensity and ebullience into a deeper and also more cautious expressiveness. So it is that while the ‘Hebrides’ overture of his twenties is a flash of inspiration immediately formed into a work of art, the ‘Scottish’ symphony is a moment of vision rescued from oblivion by careful nurturing of memories overlaid by many intervening experiences.

Peter Maag's recording is simply considered the best "Scottish" in the history of the record.

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