Suppé: Overtures & Marches

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What other composer created such a body of rousing, exhilarating and immensely tuneful pieces?...Järvi and his Scottish players provide more than just a touch of extra precision and zip. Järvi... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jan 2013
Catalogue No: CHSA5110
Label: Chandos
Length: 79 minutes

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Suppe: Leichte Kavallerie Overture

Work length6:39

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Excerpt, Suppe: Boccaccio

Work length6:53

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Overture

Track length6:53

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Suppe: Boccaccio, Act III

Work length2:41

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

March

Track length2:41

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Suppe: Die Kartenschlagerin, oder Pique Dame: Overture

Work length6:51

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Humoristische Variationen uber das beleibte Fuchslied Was kommt dort von der Hoh?

Work length5:51

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Dichter und Bauer Overture

Work length9:32

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Fatinitza: March

Work length4:29

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Das Modell: Overture

Work length6:39

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Uber Berg, uber Thal

Work length2:39

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Isabella Overture

Work length7:34

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Die schöne Galathée Overture

Work length6:55

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Donna Juanita: March

Work length4:43

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recorded: 17, 18 April 2012
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Suppe: Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien Overture

Work length8:07

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Suppe: Banditenstreiche

Work length7:08

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Suppe: Fatinitza: March (II)

Work length2:29

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

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Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo, Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli, or as he is more commonly known today, Franz von Suppé, was born in Spalato (Split), then part of the Austrian Empire, to parents of Italian / Belgian and Austrian descent. Although discouraged from a musical career from an early age, Suppé received encouragement from a distant yet illustrious relative, the great Italian opera composer Donizetti. By the 1840s Suppé had carved for himself a successful niche as a composer for the stage, and over the four decades that followed there was rarely a year without a new stage work from him.

Although the bulk of his operas and operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, his bright and colourful overtures have survived. Suppé was often referred to as ‘the Viennese Offenbach’, and in fact he was responsible for introducing many of Offenbach’s operettas to the Austrian capital. The Beautiful Galatea was among his first efforts in the style of Offenbach, Suppé here taking on the French composer’s La Belle Hélène.

Also on this disc are the overtures to Poet and Peasant, perhaps Suppé’s most familiar, and Boccaccio which is widely regarded as Suppé’s finest work for the stage, based very loosely on the life of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375), the Florentine author of the Decameron.

It would seem that wars and musical comedy often go hand in hand, perhaps partly for the purpose of deflating military pomposity. Several of Suppé’s operettas are in this vein, including Light Cavalry, The Jolly Robbers, Isabella, and, a major success, Fatinitza, all of which feature military plots in some form.

Last, but not least, this disc features Suppé’s overtures to A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna, The Queen of Spades, Donna Juanita, and The Model, several operatic marches, the concert march Up Hill and Down Dale, and the Humorous Variations on the beloved Student Song ‘Who comes from afar?’.

The works are performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, who in 2012 celebrated his thirty-year recording career with Chandos Records.

Reviews

May 2013

What other composer created such a body of rousing, exhilarating and immensely tuneful pieces?...Järvi and his Scottish players provide more than just a touch of extra precision and zip. Järvi indeed seems born to direct this music

February 2013

The performances are always alert, sharply focused and carefully balanced, with tempi well chosen. I do however sense a lack of the kind of commitment and sharpness of characterisation that is found in the best of earlier discs of this material...I would not wish to exaggerate my concerns. It is certainly a well chosen, well recorded and well annotated collection, played with enviable precision

13th January 2013

These stylish, extrovert, often deeply touching set pieces — overtures, marches, a potpourri and a set of variations — come off predictably brilliantly in Jarvi’s spirited hands.

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