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Roman – Music for a Royal Wedding

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Catalogue numberBIS-1602 CD
Release date2010-05-30
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time70:04

Composed for the 1744 celebrations at Drottningholm Palace of the marriage between the Swedish crown prince Adolf Fredrik and Lovisa Ulrika of Prussia, Johan Helmich Roman's Drottningholm Music is a key work in Swedish art music. Consisting of 24 individual movements, it forms an inventory of short pieces suitable for providing the proper musical ambience for the royal celebrations, which took place over four days. As befitted the occasion, the character of the music is buoyant and witty, and when the atmosphere occasionally veers away from the carefree, it is towards a graceful melancholy rather than grief or pain. This also conforms to the spirit of the time, as does the style of the music itself: varied and brimming with ideas, but never weighed down by dry learnedness or disproportionate displays of emotion. Roman had spent formative years in London in the 1710s, and in the 1730s made a long journey throughout Europe, absorbing the new, ‘galant' currents in music. Although by 1744 he was suffering from failing health, he was at his peak as a composer, and in this sparkling and joyful music he demonstrates both his innate talent and the impressions gathered from music by composers such as Sammartini and Leonardo Leo. The work is performed by Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, guided by Andrew Manze, the orchestra's principal conductor and one of the world's leading specialists on baroque music.
 
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  Composer: Roman, Johan Helmich
  Drottningholmsmusiken - Music for a Royal Wedding 69:17
01 I. Allegro assai 03:10 $ 0.67 USD
02 II. Allegretto 02:23 $ 0.50 USD
03 III. Andante 05:49 $ 1.22 USD
04 IV. Non troppo allegro 05:27 $ 1.14 USD
05 V. Andante 02:53 $ 0.61 USD
06 VI. Poco allegro 01:38 $ 0.34 USD
07 VII. Allegro 01:27 $ 0.30 USD
08 VIII. Lento 03:41 $ 0.77 USD
09 IX. Allegro 03:36 $ 0.76 USD
10 X. Allegro assai 02:25 $ 0.51 USD
11 XI. Allegro 02:27 $ 0.51 USD
12 XII. Presto 02:29 $ 0.52 USD
13 XIII. Tempo di Menuetto 01:29 $ 0.31 USD
14 XIV. [Trio – Menuetto da capo] 02:37 $ 0.55 USD
15 XV. Grave 03:07 $ 0.65 USD
16 XVI. Presto 01:41 $ 0.35 USD
17 XVII. Lento 02:21 $ 0.49 USD
18 XVIII. [Andante] 02:09 $ 0.45 USD
19 XIX. Allegro molto 00:57 $ 0.20 USD
20 XX. Allegro 03:40 $ 0.77 USD
21 XXI. Allegro 01:44 $ 0.36 USD
22 XXII. Allegro 03:55 $ 0.82 USD
23 XXIII. Vivace 01:10 $ 0.25 USD
24 XXIV. Allegro 05:42 $ 1.20 USD
25 XXIII. Vivace [da capo] 01:20 $ 0.28 USD
 
  Album total 70:04
OrchestraHelsingborg Symphony Orchestra (Helsingborg Symfoniorkester)
ConductorManze, Andrew
ComposerRoman, Johan Helmich

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