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The Beethoven pair is in the first place an oddity. We have the Fifth Symphony… It is a brisk, almost violent performance… On the same disc there are excerpts from Egmont, of which the one... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2009
Catalogue No: 88697400842
Label: RCA
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Beethoven: The General

Work length54:47

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Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Maximilian Schell (speaker), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Chorus
Kent Nagano

1. Overture

Track length8:29

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2. No. 1 - Song: A drum in the distance

Track length3:55

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3. No. 2 - Melodrama: One thing I learned

Track length2:03

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4. No. 3 - Melodrama: Informants, spies

Track length0:49

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5. No. 4 - Interlude I

Track length3:34

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6. No. 5 - Interlude II

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7. No. 6 - Interlude III; Melodrama: I could do something

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8. No. 7 - Interlude IV

Track length5:31

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9. No. 8 - Interlude V

Track length2:14

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10. No. 9 - Melodrama: I was one human being

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11. No. 10 - Song: Lost and despairing

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12. No. 11 - Interlude VI

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13. No. 12 - Interlude VII

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14. No. 13 - Melodrama: I had nothing to say to these people

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15. No. 14 - 'Victory Symphony'

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16. No. 15 - Finale

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Work length34:11

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Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano

I. Allegro con brio

Track length6:56

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Allegro

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IV. Allegro

Track length10:30

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Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (excerpts)

Work length17:47

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Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Maximilian Schell (speaker), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Chorus
Kent Nagano

Overture

Track length7:56

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Lied No. 1: Die Trommel gerühret

Track length2:58

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Lied No. 4: Freudvoll und leidvoll

Track length1:23

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Opferlied ("Die Flamme lodert"), Op. 121b

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Disc 2 of this double album of Beethoven’s music is devoted to his 5th Symphony and excerpts from Egmont. The first disc is a world premiere recording of The General, a piece based on an original idea by Maestro Nagano, which he premiered with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2007. Scored for orchestra, soprano, chorus and narrator, it brings together excerpts from works by Beethoven interspersed with readings of an original text by author, critic and musicologist Paul Griffiths. The narration pays tribute to Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and recounts the events that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Internationally renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, actor Maximilian Schell and the OSM Chorus under the direction of Marika Kuzma also took part in the recording.

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September 2009

The Beethoven pair is in the first place an oddity. We have the Fifth Symphony… It is a brisk, almost violent performance… On the same disc there are excerpts from Egmont, of which the one that matters is the magnificent Overture, in an account that would have one storming the local Bastille if there were one. The other disc in this pair is a concoction by the music critic Paul Griffiths, which has the purpose of producing a harrowing account of what happened in Rwanda and how this was studiously ignored by the Western powers, animated by the same music from Egmont and the fragments that Beethoven used for the melodrama... The actor Maximilian plays the part of The General, telling us of the horrors and of how his task of helping was...

19th June 2009

Fragments of Egmont, König Stephan and Leonore Prohaska accompany a new libretto by Paul Griffiths telling of the UN peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire's attempts to prevent the civil war in Rwanda. I'm not sure what this has to do with the French Revolution, but it's gripping stuff, largely thanks to Maximilian Schell's world-wearied narration of Dallaire's predicament.

Beethoven - Ideals of the French Revolution

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