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Weber – Overtures

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Catalogue numberBIS-1760 SACD
Release date2011-06-24
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time67:35

Although celebrated as the father of German Romantic opera, Carl Maria von Weber is today generally known for one opera alone: Der Freischütz. Most of his other works for the stage – including the incidental music for several plays – are nowadays rarely performed. But their overtures have survived the test of time and are popular fillers at orchestral concerts, imbued as they are with Weber's particular mix of Romantic drama and lyricism and Classical lightness of touch.

Striking is also the inimitable, colourful instrumentation, which is given free reins in these scores for librettos and plays that are set in China and Arabia, and among Spanish gypsies and knights in 12th-century France. The present disc includes ten of these gems, from the overture to Weber’s first surviving opera Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn – composed at the age of fifteen – to that of Oberon, written in London for Covent Garden less than two months before his death from tuberculosis, aged 39.

The team of Jean-Jacques Kantorow and the Tapiola Sinfonietta have recorded numerous discs for BIS, by composers as diverse as Saint-Saëns, Mozart, Shostakovich and Rautavaara. Acclaimed releases have also been dedicated to the music of Weber, most recently his symphonies on a disc which was described as ‘without doubt among the finest additions to the Weber discography in recent years’ by the reviewer of the German magazine Fono Forum. His French colleague in Diapason was equally enthusiastic, remarking upon the dramatic qualities of the recording: ‘Kantorow stages a theatre of sounds in which each instrument is an actor…’
 
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Extra material for download
 
 
  Composer: Weber, Carl Maria von
  Der Beherrscher der Geister, J122 - concert overture
01 Presto 04:48 $ 0.50 USD
 
  Turandot, Prinzessin von China, J75 - overture from the incidental music
02 Allegro moderato 04:11 $ 0.44 USD
 
  Abu Hassan, J106 - overture to the opera
03 Presto 03:27 $ 0.36 USD
 
  Der Freischütz, J277 - overture to the opera
04 Adagio – Molto vivace 08:29 $ 0.89 USD
 
  Oberon, J306 - overture to the opera
05 Adagio sostenuto 08:36 $ 0.90 USD
 
  Euryanthe, J291 - overture to the opera
06 Allegro marcato, con molto fuoco 07:43 $ 0.81 USD
 
  Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn, J8/J54 - Grande Ouverture
à plusieurs instruments
07 Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace 08:22 $ 0.88 USD
 
  Preciosa, J279 - overture from the incidental music
08 Allegro moderato 07:32 $ 0.79 USD
 
  Silvana, J87 - overture to the opera
09 Andante 05:35 $ 0.59 USD
 
  Jubel-Ouvertüre, J245 - concert overture
10 Adagio 07:03 $ 0.74 USD
 
  Album total 67:35
OrchestraTapiola Sinfonietta
ComposerWeber, Carl Maria von
ConductorKantorow, Jean-Jacques

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