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Product Identifiers

Record LabelOndine, Ond

UPC0761195133125

eBay Product ID (ePID)17060439357

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2019

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistBeethoven / Breuer / Hakkinen

Release TitleEgmont

Dimensions

Item Height0.42in

Item Weight0.24lb.

Item Length5.61in

Item Width4.96in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks11

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Egmont, Op. 84 1.2 1. Overture 00:11:14 1.3 2. Song, Die Trommel gerühret (The Drum Resounds) (Clara) 00:03:50 1.4 3. Entr'acte No. 1: Andante - Allegro con Brio 00:05:26 1.5 4. Entr'acte No. 2: Larghetto 00:06:03 1.6 5. Freudvoll und leidvoll (Blissful and Tearful) (Clara) 00:02:09 1.7 6. Entr'acte No. 3: Allegro - Marcia, Vivace 00:06:26 1.8 7. Entr'acte No. 4: Poco sostenuto e risoluto 00:04:55 1.9 8. Clärchens Tod: Larghetto 00:05:01 1.10 9. Melodrama: Poco sostenuto 00:06:00 1.11 10. Siegessymphonie: Allegro con brio 00:01:13

NotesThis album by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra playing on period instruments under the direction of Aapo Hakkinen includes Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) complete incidental music to Goethe's Egmont. Beethoven started to write the incidental music to Goethe's Egmont in the autumn of 1809. The recent experience of Napoleon's siege of Vienna, the Spanish uprising against the French, and the ubiquitous awareness of the hand of the oppressor inspired him to write music in which the drama develops into the musical vision of the Wars of Liberation. It was a commission from the management of the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna, which in October 1809, oppressed by Napoleon on all sides, had turned again to Egmont, with a view to putting on a new production. Beethoven was tasked with providing the essential and indispensable music, which was however played only from the fourth performance of the new production in June 1810. Beethoven had recently become an ardent reader and admirer of Goethe. He had set Mignon's song Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt four times in 1808 alone, and this had started an intense preoccupation with songs to Goethe texts. In a letter to Bettina von Arnim in February 1811 Beethoven writes: "My most sincere admiration... for Goethe... I am about to write to him myself about Egmont, for which I have written the music, which I did out of sheer love for his poetry...". What distinguishes Beethoven's Egmont are great dramatic emotion of style, tightly unified musical ideas, and an absolute determination to create a sense of the triumph of freedom as the Utopian dream of the whole of mankind. The overture, the only one of the ten numbers to be heard regularly today in the concert-hall, draws all these intentions together in concentrated form. It's meaning is revealed only in context, together with the interludes and the final musical episodes.