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Beethoven: Egmont; Ah! Perfido

Pierard; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Judd

Shortly after completing his breathtaking Fifth Symphony, Beethoven composed incidental music for Goethe's drama Egmont. While the Overture is well known, the remaining movements deserve no less attention as they chart the tragic course of Count Egmont's rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands and his ill-fated love for Clara, whose suicide Beethoven movingly portrays. Two Marches, composed at around the same time, and his concert aria Ah! Perfido, written a decade earlier, complement one of Beethoven's most effective theatrical scores.

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Beethoven: Egmont; Ah! Perfido

00:55:16

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Beethoven: Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84

Pierard; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Judd

00:40:15

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Beethoven: March for wind ensemble in F major, ("Für die Böhmische Landwehr"), WoO 18

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Judd

00:01:27

Beethoven: March for wind ensemble in F major, WoO 19

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Judd

00:01:47

Beethoven: Ah! perfido! . . . Per pieta, non dirmi addio, scena and aria for soprano & orchestra, Op. 65

Pierard; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Judd

00:11:47

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Collectors Reviews

"Conducted by James Judd, the performance is very grand, intense, at times genuinely ecstatic, and there are fine contributions from soprano Madeleine Pierard as a feisty Klarchen...Pierard sings with extraordinary elegance and piercing clarity of tone."

The Guardian

Judd’s survey of the Egmont music is finely conceived, with a good sense of theatre as well as sensitivity…This well produced and recorded disc also introduces…the soprano of Madelaine Pierard, bright, agile and confident…crisply enjoyable.

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Label:
Naxos

Range:
Naxos

Catalogue Number:
8557264

Barcode:
747313226429

Release Date:
18th Dec 2009

Recording Date:
15th Mar 2007; 12th Feb 2008

Recording Location:
Wellington Town Hall,Wellington,New Zealand; Michael Fowler Centre,Wellington,New Zealand

Producer:
Tim Handley

Engineer:
Tim Handley

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