Description
Famous Overtures — Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, Naxos (Audio CD)
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Product Details
- UPC: 730099462723
- Label: Naxos
- Composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, Suppé, Offenbach, Rossini, Verdi
- Performers: Capella Istropolitana/Barry Wordsworth; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Stephen Gunzenhauser; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Oliver Dohnányi; BRT Philharmonic Orchestra/Alexander Rahbari; ORF Symphony Orchestra/Pinchas Steinberg; Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra/Alfred Walter; Zagreb Festival Orchestra/Michael Halász; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Pier Giorgio Morandi
- Catalogue Number: 8.553627
- Release Year: 1997
- Genre: Classical — Orchestral (Overture Compilation)
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Product Features
- Format: Audio CD, factory sealed
- Recording: DDD (fully digital)
- Playing Time: 79'42"
- Cover Painting: Fingal's Cave by Carl Carus (1789–1869)
Overview
This is a "greatest hits of the overture" disc, and it does exactly what that promises: nine of the most recognizable curtain-raisers in the orchestral repertoire, pulled together from Naxos's existing full-opera and full-work catalogue rather than re-recorded for this release. That's worth knowing going in — each track is credited back to its source disc, so what you're getting is a compilation built from performances Naxos already trusted enough to release individually.
The range runs from Mozart's crisp, four-minute Marriage of Figaro opener through to Wagner's stormy ten-minute Flying Dutchman overture, with Mendelssohn's Hebrides (better known as Fingal's Cave, which also supplies the cover art) and Brahms's boisterous Academic Festival — built from student drinking songs — sitting comfortably alongside lighter fare like Suppé's Light Cavalry and Offenbach's can-can-adjacent Orpheus in the Underworld.
For anyone who wants a single-disc primer on orchestral overtures without committing to nine separate full recordings, this compiles exactly that — a legitimate way to sample Naxos's catalogue across composers and orchestras in one sitting.
Interesting Facts
- Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture was inspired by an 1829 visit to Fingal's Cave in Scotland — the same cave depicted in Carl Carus's painting used for this disc's cover.
- Brahms's Academic Festival Overture was written as a thank-you for an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, and quietly weaves in several German student drinking songs, including what became known as "Gaudeamus igitur."
- Every track on this disc is drawn from a separate, previously released Naxos recording — the liner notes credit each performance back to its original catalogue number.
- Rossini's The Thieving Magpie overture is famous for its extended snare-drum roll opening, an unusual and instantly identifiable choice for a 19th-century Italian opera.
- Wagner's The Flying Dutchman overture compresses the opera's entire supernatural sea-voyage narrative into roughly ten minutes, using recurring musical themes (leitmotifs) that Wagner would develop much further in his later work.
Track Listing
- Mozart — The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 — 4:02
- Beethoven — Egmont, Op. 84 — 8:27
- Mendelssohn — Hebrides, Op. 26 — 10:59
- Brahms — Academic Festival, Op. 80 — 10:46
- Wagner — The Flying Dutchman — 10:57
- Suppé — Light Cavalry — 6:25
- Offenbach — Orpheus in the Underworld — 10:11
- Rossini — The Thieving Magpie — 10:07
- Verdi — The Force of Destiny — 7:47
Publishers
Released by Naxos, catalogue 8.553627, © 1997 HNH International Ltd. Music notes by Keith Anderson.
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