Mendelssohn: Oedipus (Stage Music) - RSO Berlin, Stefan Stoltesz

Here comes a fine recording of Mendellsohn's late Incidental Music to Oedipus (first performed in 1845). For those who do not know this great tragety by Sophokles it must be noted that this is "Oedipus in Colonus" and should not be confused with "Oedipus Rex" where King Oedipus tried to discover who is the man who killed his father and married his mother bringing misfortune to Thebes, but finally realizes that it was he who did it. His mother/wife, Iocasta hangs herself, he gets blind and becomes an outcast by his brother-in-law, Creon.