Verdi: Nabucco Overture (with Score)

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Giuseppe Verdi:
Nabucco (Nabucodonosor) Overture (with Score)
Composed: 1842
Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

0:00 Andante
1:44 Allegro
2:40 Andantino
5:24 Allegro

Nabucco was Verdi's first great success. It is linked not only with the composer's history but also with the history of Italy. The "hit tune," the chorus "Va, pensiero," (Fly, my thoughts) became the unofficial hymn of Italian national liberation and reunification, and even today almost holds the status of national anthem. It was so strongly associated with Verdi that the crowds at his funeral procession spontaneously began to sing it as the cortege passed through the crowded streets of Rome.

Verdi at this time in his life was deeply discouraged and unhappy, due both to personal tragedy and to a lack of musical success, and it was the impresario Merelli who forced the libretto upon him. When Verdi tossed the text on a table, intending to have nothing to do with it, it opened at the words "Va, pensiero," and he read it, and then read the rest; at their next meeting, Merelli was able to persuade Verdi to continue his musical career with a setting of this libretto. So it's not that surprising that this one section has somewhat overshadowed the rest of the work, but the whole has as much to offer as this one part.

Abigaille is notorious as a killer role for the soprano daring enough to take it on -- the voices it is said to have ruined include that of Giuseppina Strepponi, Verdi's lover and later his wife -- but the rewards it offers are enough to tempt many a singer. The role has one of opera's most dramatic entrances, a beautiful aria and stunningly forceful cabaletta, a striking duet with Nabucco, and a death scene that can steal the show. Even Abigaille's recitatives are full of energy and virtuosic effect; one contains a two-octave leap to a high C. The role of Nabucco runs the gamut of emotions, from haughty belligerence to tender paternal love to insanity to humble faith in the God of the Hebrews, expressed in highly effective, if not yet completely individualized music. Zachary is the musical and dramatic predecessor to Procida in I Vespri Siciliani. Driven by patriotic fervor, he emerges in music that alternates between stirring exhortation, religious reflection, and hints of the single-minded ferocity that was to emerge again still later in Ernani and in the Inquisitor in Don Carlo.

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- How many captivating melodies do you want in your opera ?
Verdi : Yes.

Dylonely_

this is the first full orchestral piece i've ever performed. it's so powerful and got me into classical music as a whole

coasterdragon

6:25
No joke, I played this when I made my All State music festival in my senior year, and my friend who played trombone also made it, and during rehearsal he accidentally played one too many of those 2 eighth note quarter note figures, but the conductor liked it so much he gave him a dollar.

PuffyOne

From 5:41-5:54 reminded me so much of Tchaikovsky. I Love It!!!

Compostitons_tt

0:39
1:13
1:44
2:41
5:10 pizz
5:23
5:38 eights
5:41 RM 14

omiteehee

playing this on oboe kills me, even if it's only second part 😭

moony_studioz

5:54 legend has it that this was the music that was played when Nebuchadnezzar ordered his subjects to worship his golden idol, which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to worship

kikicallahan

Bis zu dem tage, als der junge, noch weitgehend unbekannte giuseppe verdi diese ouvertüre komponierte(1842) war gaetano donizetti der unbestrittene könig der oper(seit 1835 mit seimem meisterwerk "lucia di lammermoor)

margritammeter

I wonder if he wrote the four parts first and then distributed them to orchestra does anyone know? I can be contacted easily.

stevenparada

It was arranged though, it was the piece but it was cut from the beginning part to the end.

vitogeraci

My band director put me on piccolo for this song. I'm cooked

aei

Nella firstedition vedo che le note sono staccate (puntino sopra): chi ha ragione? e i 16mi al posto dei 32mi nel fortissimo. E' da dimostrare che per Verdi 16 fossero 32 e 32 fossero 64 hmmmm

shonnyno