Beethoven: Overtures and Incidental Music

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Release Date: 24th Mar 2023
Catalogue No: VOX-NX-3017CD
Label: Vox
Length: 59 minutes

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Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138

Work length9:47

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Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a

Work length14:20

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$3.85

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

Work length14:25

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$3.85

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture Op. 72c

Work length6:55

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$1.30

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: The Ruins of Athens Overture, Op. 113

Work length5:38

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$1.30

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: Turkish March (from The Ruins of Athens)

Work length1:56

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$1.30

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Beethoven: March and Chorus in E-Flat Major from 'Ruins of Athens' Op. 113

Work length6:00

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$1.30

Minnesota Orchestra, Bach Society of Minnesota
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

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Much has been written about Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, formerly Leonore. Beethoven worked on it on and off for almost a decade. During that time the four different overtures included on this recording were composed. They are substantially different, not only in length but also in themes, with the Fidelio overture composed in a different key and using no material from the opera itself. The Ruins of Athens is a set of incidental music pieces composed for the opening of the Deutsches Theater in today’s Budapest. Even though only the Turkish March is often heard today, many listeners may be familiar rather with Liszt’s fantasia for piano and orchestra on themes of this score. Stanisław Skrowaczewski began to play the piano and the violin at the age of four, composed his first symphonic work at seven, gave his first public piano recital when he was eleven and went on to become one of the best known conductors in the world. He conducted several Polish orchestras before emigrating to the US where he was chief conductor of many leading orchestras. On the present recording he leads the GRAMMY awardwinning Minnesota Orchestra. The recordings of American orchestras produced for VOX by the legendary Elite Recordings team of Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be among the very finest sounding orchestral recordings ever made.

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