Weber: Overtures / Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta
Details
- Composer
- WEBER, CARL MARIA VON
- Artist
- Jean-Jacques, Kantorow
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- BIS
- Released
- Jun 01, 2011
- Catalog #
- BIS-SACD-1760
- UPC
- 7318599917603
About
Although celebrated as the father of German Romantic opera, Carl Maria von Weber is today generally known for one opera alone: Der Freischütz. Most of his other works for the stage - including the incidental music for several plays - are nowadays rarely performed. But their overtures have survived the test of time and are popular fillers at orchestral concerts, imbued as they are with Weber's particular mix of Romantic drama and lyricism and Classical lightness of touch. Striking is also the inimitable, colourful instrumentation, which is given free reins in these scores for librettos and plays that are set in China and Arabia, and among Spanish gypsies and knights in 12th-century France. The present disc includes ten of these gems, from the overture to Weber's first surviving opera Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn - composed at the age of fifteen - to that of Oberon, written in London for Covent Garden less than two months before his death from tuberculosis, aged 39. The team of Jean-Jacques Kantorow and the Tapiola Sinfonietta have recorded numerous discs for BIS, by composers as diverse as Saint-Saëns, Mozart, Shostakovich and Rautavaara. Acclaimed releases have also been dedicated to the music of Weber, most recently his symphonies on a disc which was described as 'without doubt among the finest additions to the Weber discography in recent years' by the reviewer of the German magazine Fono Forum. His French colleague in Diapason was equally enthusiastic, remarking upon the dramatic qualities of the recording: 'Kantorow stages a theatre of sounds in which each instrument is an actor...'
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 Der Beherrscher der Geister (Ruler of Spirits), J. 122 04:48
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Der Beherrscher der Geister (Ruler of Spirits), J. 122
- Duration
- 04:48
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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2 Overture and Marches for Turandot, J. 75: Overture 04:11
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Overture and Marches for Turandot, J. 75: Overture
- Duration
- 04:11
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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3 Abu Hassan, J. 106: Overture 03:27
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Abu Hassan, J. 106: Overture
- Duration
- 03:27
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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4 Der Freischutz, J. 277: Overture 08:29
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Der Freischutz, J. 277: Overture
- Duration
- 08:29
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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5 Oberon, J. 306: Overture 08:36
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Oberon, J. 306: Overture
- Duration
- 08:36
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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6 Euryanthe, J. 291: Overture 07:43
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Euryanthe, J. 291: Overture
- Duration
- 07:43
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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7 Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn, J. 8: Overture 08:22
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn, J. 8: Overture
- Duration
- 08:22
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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8 Preciosa, J. 279: Overture 07:32
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Preciosa, J. 279: Overture
- Duration
- 07:32
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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9 Silvana, J. 87: Overture 05:35
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Silvana, J. 87: Overture
- Duration
- 05:35
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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10 Jubel-Overture, Op. 59, J. 245 07:03
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Jubel-Overture, Op. 59, J. 245
- Duration
- 07:03
- Composer
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Ensemble
- Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow