Beethoven: The Birth of a Master

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Rhorer's textures are skull-crackingly hard coated and rhythmically assertive: the tempo change in the first movement, Adagio to Allegro, jolts the music out of its comfort zone, while the second... — Classic FM Magazine, November 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: AM204
Label: Ambroisie
Length: 63 minutes

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43

Work length5:09

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Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

Excerpt, Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72

Work length4:15

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$1.30

Alexandra Coku (soprano)
Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

Act I: Aria: O war' ich schon mit dir vereint (Marzelline)

Track length4:15

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Beethoven: No, non turbati, WoO 92a

Work length5:32

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Alexandra Coku (soprano)
Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

Beethoven: Romance No.2 in F, Op.50

Work length9:16

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$2.60

Julien Chauvin (violin)
Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65

Work length12:26

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$3.85

Alexandra Coku (soprano)
Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Work length26:24

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Cercle de l'Harmonie, Le
Jérémie Rhorer

I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

Track length8:57

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II. Andante cantabile con moto

Track length8:18

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III. Menuetto - Allegro molto e vivace

Track length3:13

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IV. Adagio - Allegro molto

Track length5:56

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This recording of a live performance of music by the young Beethoven – his first operatic, symphonic and concert masterpieces – features one of the best of the newer ensembles on the international scene, Le Cercle de L’Harmonie under its conductor Jérémie Rhorer. The lively and innovative programme includes the early dramatic scene “Ah Perfido”, the concert aria “No non turbati”, “O wär’ ich schon mit dir verein” (an aria from the first version of Fidelio, which was titled “Leonore”), as well as his First Symphony, and the first of the two Romances for violin and orchestra.

Formed in April 2005 in Deauville by Jeremy Rhorer and Julien Chauvin (first violin), le Cercle de l’Harmonie soon established itself as a significant force in the performance of great symphonic and operatic repertoires of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The ensemble is now invited to appear at major venues – including London’s Barbican Hall in June – and with artists such as Diana Damrau and Philippe Jaroussky, with whom it has recorded two CDs for Virgin Classics. This, the first in a series of productions for Ambroisie, presents Jérémie Rhorer’s first recording of works by Beethoven.

Today the music of Beethoven is regarded as a remarkable link in the chain of evolution of Western music, a judgement that is based mainly on the pieces he composed after 1800. However there was in his artistic development a transitional period, around the turn of the century, when the works he composed appear to belong to the Classical tradition while presenting ideas that were to be developed later. This recording features the major works of that period, the Symphony No. 1 in C major, and the Romance for violin and orchestra in F major, op. 50. There are also three vocal works on the disc, the aria “O wär’ ich schon mit dir verein” from “Leonore”, the first version of Beethoven’s only opera “Fidelio”, the dramatic scene “Ah Perfido”, and the concert aria “No non turbati”.

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November 2011

Rhorer's textures are skull-crackingly hard coated and rhythmically assertive: the tempo change in the first movement, Adagio to Allegro, jolts the music out of its comfort zone, while the second movement Andante is lingering rather than sentimental...[His] Beethoven is intelligent, probing and makes a genuine attempt to reclaim the 'sound' of Beethoven from 'music' we've heard maybe once too often

Beethoven: The Birth of a Master

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