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Title: Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore (1806)

Musicians: Pamela Coburn Christine Neithardt-Barbaux Eric Martin-Bonnet Jean-Philippe Lafont Mark Baker Victor von Halem Benedikt Kobel Rundfunkchor Köln Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn Cond.: Marc Soustrot

Number of CDs: 2

Order Number: MDG 337 0826-2

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Original, Authorized, and Unabridged This extraordinary CD features an interesting chapter given rise to the Leonore story, was hardly fitting in music history that has given rise to many a subject matter for such a time and place. speculation: Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Leonore, in the world-premiere recording of the ... then try again, ... version of 1806. Produced in cooperation with Beethoven composed a new overture especially for musicological experts from the Beethoven Archive in the second staging in 1806: the Leonore Overture as Bonn, this CD not only presents the original Leonore we know it today. Believe it or not, it too was a failure authorized by Beethoven himself but also the first "owing to the incessant dissonances and overcharged unabridged version of the libretto. buzzing in the violins." Revisions and Versions ... and again and again! Ten years separated the first and last versions of the In subsequent years Joseph August Röckel, who sang much-revised work, which, contrary to Beethoven's the part of Florestan, did everything he could to wishes, was initially announced not as Leonore but as discredit this version of the opera. He spread the Fidelio. A lot changed during those ten years, but the rumor that friends had prevailed on Beethoven to version of 1806 occupies a special place within the undertake the radical cuts between the premiere canon of the versions and as such certainly merits its version and the version of 1806. All biographers special attention. believed Röckel and eliminated the Leonore of 1806 from relevant discussion. If at first you don't succeed, ... The premiere in 1805 in the Theater an der Wien was Final Breakthrough a complete and total flop. This time not only poor But Röckel's story was a pure invention. Scholars public taste but also political circumstances stood in recognized this fact, somewhat belatedly, when the the way of the success of a Viennese classical score of the version of 1806 became available in masterpiece. The city was under French occupation, 1997. This fabulous work is much more extensive than and the nobles who normally would have packed the Fidelio and also bears Beethoven's full stamp of theater had fled. The French Revolution, which had approval.

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