Allegoria della notte
Introduction
The overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream was conceived in Berlin in the Mendelssohn family’s enormous garden, where the young Felix and his sisters presented pageants, plays and musical performances inspired by the likes of Shakespeare. Salvatore Sciarrino took inspiration for his Allegoria della notte from Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. As Sciarrino himself put it, the piece is ”the uninhabited side of Planet Mendelssohn” whose darkness is dissipated by the themes of the violin concerto.