Beethoven - Egmont (Incidental Music) | Naxos 8573956

Beethoven - Egmont (Incidental Music)

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573956

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 11th October 2019

Contents

Artists

Kaisa Ranta (soprano)
Matti Salminen (narrator)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Leif Segerstam

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Egmont, op.84: Incidental Music
Leonore (original version of Fidelio, 1805)
» Introduction (Act 2), WoO2b Hess117
Leonore Prohaska, WoO96
» no.4 Trauermarsch (Funeral March) in B minor
Minuets (6), WoO10
Triumphal March in C major, WoO2a 'Tarpeja'

Artists

Kaisa Ranta (soprano)
Matti Salminen (narrator)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Leif Segerstam

About

Beethoven was involved with the theatre in one way or another from boyhood, and the commission to compose incidental music for Goethe’s play Egmont at the Royal Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna was the first of many such collaborations. Beethoven’s score conveys the essence of this tragedy and reveals his clear affinity with its theme of heroic sacrifice by a man condemned to death for taking a valiant stand against oppression.

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