1.4 Nicolai Die Iustigen Weiber Von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
1.5 Weber Der Freischutz
1.6 Beethoven Leonore Op 72
1.7 Mendelssohn Ein Sommernachtstaum (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Op 21
Number of discs:
1
Description:
This recording explores the Romanticists obsession with the fantastic and the supernatural by looking at seven overtures. These works were openings to dramas or operas, and are typical of the types of programmatic writing that was popular in the nineteenth century. ABC Classics. 2005.