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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.
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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