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[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010
"Those curious for some not too often heard music by Beethoven can safely invest in this well played disc" MusicWeb May 2010
Shortly after completing his breathtaking Fifth Symphony, Beethoven composed incidental music for Goethe's drama, Egmont. While the Overture is well known, the remaining movements deserve no less attention as they chart the tragic course of Count Egmont's rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands and his ill-fated love for Clara, whose suicide Beethoven movingly portrays. Two Marches, composed at around the same time, and his concert aria Ah! perfido, written a decade earlier, complement one of Beethoven's most effective theatrical scores.
Tracks:
Egmont, Op. 84
1. Overture
2. No. 1. Act I Scene 3: Die Trommel geruhret (Clarchen)
3. No. 2. Entr'acte No. 1: Andante
4. No. 3. Entr'acte No. 2: Larghetto
5. No. 4. Act III Scene 2: Freudvoll und leidvoll (Clarchen)
6. No. 5. Entr'acte No. 3: Allegro - Marcia, Vivace
7. No. 6. Entr'acte No. 4: Larghetto
8. No. 7. Act V Scene 3: Death of Clarchen
9. No. 8. Act V Scene 4: Melodrama (Egmont)
10. No. 9. Act V Scene 4: Symphony of Victory
March in F major, WoO 18, "Fur die bohmische Landwehr"
March in F major, WoO 19
Ah, perfido, Op. 65
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