Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 1 / Salvi, Czech Chamber PO Pardubice

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
December 2, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Heinrich August Marschner
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Czech Chamber Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      Dario Salvi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 02, 2022
    • UPC
      747313444977
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574449
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Der Kyffhäuser Berg (The Kyffhäuser Hill): Overture

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    2. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella): Overture

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    3. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act II: Entr'acte

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    4. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act II: Ballet

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    5. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act III: Entr'acte

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    6. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act IV: Entr'acte

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    7. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act IV: Marsch der Krieger und Mädchen (March of the Warriors and Maidens)

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    8. Schön Ella (Beautiful Ella), Act V: Entr'acte

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    9. Ali Baba, oder Die vierzig Räuber (Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves): Overture

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    10. Ali Baba, oder Die vierzig Räuber (Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves), Act II: Melodrama

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    11. Ali Baba, oder Die vierzig Räuber (Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves), Act II: Schluss (Ending)

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    12. Ali Baba, oder Die vierzig Räuber (Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves), Act III: Ballet

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    13. Ali Baba, oder Die vierzig Räuber (Ali Baba, or The Forty Thieves), Act III: Schluss (Ending)

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    14. Der Holzdieb (The Wood Thief): Overture

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi

    15. Die Wiener in Berlin (The Viennese in Berlin): Overture

      Composer: Heinrich August Marschner

      Ensemble: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

      Conductor: Dario Salvi


Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. These have long been overlooked. In this first volume Schön Ella represents Marschner’s mastery of form, skillful orchestration and melodic gifts, while the excerpts from Ali Baba reveal his flair for theatrical concision and mood setting.

REVIEW:

With his call for a German national opera free of foreign influences, Heinrich August Marschner had a lasting influence on Richard Wagner. But Wagner’s success ultimately became Marschner’s undoing. Increasingly overshadowed by Wagner, he died largely unnoticed.

When it came to romantic expressiveness in the orchestra, melodrama and descriptions of situations, Marschner was in his element. With influences from Weber but also from Mendelssohn, his music is inventive and appealing.

Dario Salvi launches a complete recording of Marschner’s overtures and other pieces from his stage works. He does so very stylishly, with a stimulating alternation between relaxed and more dramatic music-making, and the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice responds at a high technical level.

-- Pizzicato (Remy Franck)