Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses; Leonore Prohaska (Incidental Music)
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Performer: Bryn TerfelComposer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Performer: Sascha Reckert
Performer: Marie-Pierre Langlamet
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Performer: Sylvia McNair
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-09-17
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: Die Weihe des Hauses, Ouvert?re
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 1 Unsichtbarer Chor
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 2 Duett
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 3 Chor der Derwische
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: Marcia alla turca
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 5 Chor mit Sopran-Solo WoO 98
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: Marsch mit Chor
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 7 Musik hinter der Szene
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: Rezitativ
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: Chor: Mit reger Freude, die nie erkaltet
- Musik zu Carl Meisls Gelegenheitsfestspiel: No. 9 Chor: Heil unserm Kaiser!
- Musik zu Friedrich Dunkers Drama: Leonore Prohaska
- Musik zu Friedrich Dunkers Drama: No. 2 Romanze
- Musik zu Friedrich Dunkers Drama: No. 3 Melodram
- Musik zu Friedrich Dunkers Drama: Trauermarsch
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Even with the greatest composers, not all of their music is as widely known to the public as some of their more prominent works. This is true of Beethoven, as can be seen here on this Deutsche Grammophon recording from the mid-1990s, involving two sets of incidental music scores that are hardly as well known as, say, either the Fifth, Seventh, or Ninth Symphonies of this composer.
Take the music Beethoven wrote for "Consecration Of The House", in 1822, for instance. Essentially a restructuring of music he had written for an earlier play ("The Ruins Of Athens"), and rent with supernatural mythology, the work was comissioned for the rebuilt Josefstadt theater in Vienna for that year. Nowadays, it is known only for that impressive Handelian-influenced concert overture that bears its name. But the music, which takes up 51 minutes of the CD, is still quite impressive apart from the overture, containing fairly elaborate orchestration.
The same holds true for the music for Johann Duncker's 1815 play "Leonore Prohaska" (which, despite its title and its themes of fighting for freedom that were part-in-parcel of Beethoven's being, had no relation to the composer's opera "Fidelio"). It is even less known than "Consecration", but it also features elaborate orchestration, including harp and the rarely used glass armonica, creating an almost supernatural effect.
All of this is bought together under Claudio Abbado's direction, with two superstar vocalists (Sylvia McNair; Bryn Terfel), recitators (including Bruno Ganz), the Berlin Radio Chorus, and the Berlin Philharmonic. While neither score on this album is as well known as, say, Beethoven's own score for "Egmont", Mendelssohn's for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", or Schubert's for "Rosamunde", it is well worth looking for to hear a side of Beethoven that has almost never been able to see the light of day, either in recordings or in the concert hall.
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