Friedrich Kuhlau - William Shakespeare, Op.74 - Ouverture

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Friedrich Kuhlau

Work: William Shakespeare, Op.29, Play with music in four acts, first performance 28 March 1826, Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen.

Libretto: Caspar Johannes Boye

Ouverture (scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, bass trombone, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, strings.)

Orchestra: The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Michael Schønwandt

To the Danish romantic drama William Shakespeare (1826), dealing with a legend from the great English playwright's youth about his poaching and rivalry with the local squire, Kuhlau wrote very poetic, fairy-like incidental music.

It was written in the same year as Weber's Oberon and Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the Overture to William Shakespeare we can see most clearly the influence of Beethoven on Kuhlau.

The long, truly Romantic introduction has a fine horn solo and strong repeated chords, surely inspired by the six chords in the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

It leads directly into the fast section (in 6/8 time), introduced by a fugato reminding us of Mendelssohn. Later on Weber comes to mind, but for all that it is genuine Kuhlau, and it has a great dramatic impact, culminating in a masterly development section.
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One of the most massive overtures ever written!

lennybisutti
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Che sorpresa questo compositore che meriterebbe più esecuzioni e fama. Questa ouverture è davvero un ben degno omaggio al grande bardo inglese:davvero eccellente! E il finale ha una sua bellezza in crescendo; ha qualcosa di pomposo e solenne come l'ingresso a corte fra due grandi ali di cortigiani, mentre il poeta annunciato e atteso, fa il suo ingresso solenne, al cospetto della regina. Cosi immagino la scena.Davvero geniale in questo il maestro Friederich Kuhlau.

plantocrate
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This is a very lively overture; well orchestrated.

gerardbegni
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VERY good -- too bad so much of K's work is lost (fire); genius imo.

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