K_A op. 4. Mendelssohn. Hebrides Overture. Otto Klemperer.
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Felix Mendelssohn.
Hebrides Overture (Die Hebriden), Opus 26. 1830-1832.
Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio.
Conductor: Otto Klemperer.

We return with Otto Klemperer coincidentally, or maybe not. Katsunori diving in the darkness in internet check a version of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides that seems not to impress him, and by those links offered by the net reaches the version we hear, and without hesitation he listen the full version. The Hebrides is a symphonic poem composed by Mendelssohn at the fascination aroused in him Fingal’s Cave in the Hebrides, one fringed coastal cave of basaltic colonnades. Although referred to as “Overture” the work is independent. The interpretation of the work makes the director Otto Klemperer seems to awaken an emotion in Katsunori similar in degree at least (maybe not in temperature) to what must have felt at the time the German composer discovered the cave.

Otto Klemperer in More than Notes.