Beethoven: Egmont (Incidental Music)
and marches from Tarpeja & Leonore Prohaska
Matti Salminen (narrator), Kaisa Ranta (soprano)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Where Segerstam’s grand manner comes into its own is in some tantalising fragments of Beethoven in ceremonial and elegiac vein...He cultivates an unfashionably rounded sonority from the strings...
Beethoven: Egmont (Incidental Music)
and marches from Tarpeja & Leonore Prohaska
Matti Salminen (narrator), Kaisa Ranta (soprano)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
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Where Segerstam’s grand manner comes into its own is in some tantalising fragments of Beethoven in ceremonial and elegiac vein...He cultivates an unfashionably rounded sonority from the strings...
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.
Contents and tracklist
- Matti Salminen, Kaisa Ranta (soprano)
- Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
- Leif Segerstam
Beethoven:
Triumphmarsch zum Trauerspiel Tarpeja von Kuffner (Triumphal March for the Tragedy Tarpeja by Kuffner), WoO 2a, Hess 117
Work length3:05
Awards and reviews
January 2020
Where Segerstam’s grand manner comes into its own is in some tantalising fragments of Beethoven in ceremonial and elegiac vein...He cultivates an unfashionably rounded sonority from the strings of the Turku Philharmonic, but the songful ease and elegant phrasing of his dance-music conducting [in the minuets] and in the complete Creatures of Prometheus may confound some expectations.
January 2020
Musical and muscular, these are strong performances of some great Beethoven.
