Symphonien Nr.1-5

"I find that Mendelssohn does not receive the attention he deserves," said Paavo Järvi at the beginning of the 2020-2021 season. Confronted with this realization, he decided that for his second season as music director, he would record a complete cycle of orchestral works by Mendelssohn with the Tonhalle Orkest Zürich. The programme includes the composer's five symphonies, including the Second, known as "Lobgesang", half symphony, half cantata, with the participation of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, tenor Patrick Grahl and sopranos Chen Reiss and Marie Henriette Reinhold. A Midsummer Night's Dream after Shakespeare, of which Mendelssohn composed the overture at the age of 17, concludes this magnificent cycle.