WDR Funkhausorchester, Ernst Theis, Marc Gruber, Philipp Baader – Albert Lortzing: Overtures (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

WDR Funkhausorchester, Ernst Theis, Marc Gruber, Philipp Baader – Albert Lortzing: Overtures (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:35 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CPO

A CD with orchestral works by Albert Lortzing should primarily include a CD with overtures to his operas. In addition to his stage works, which include interlude arias and incidental music, Lortzing almost exclusively composed works set to texts (choral works and art songs). In Leipzig, Lortzing soon realised that composing for publishers was a difficult, if not hopeless under­ taking — but nevertheless he was involved with it in the final year of his life — and he quickly became aware of the clear separation between the theatre and the Gewandhaus (Orchestra). “The orchestra is subservient to the music lovers’ concerts (which are important, of course) and the theatre, which brings the most income, is a secondary matter. If the Musikverein wants to pres­ent a concert, and the theatre director wants to present an opera at the same time, then the concert has first pri­ority and the opera audience has to be content with substitute orchestra members; I repeat — the theatre brings in 4 times as much money to the orchestra as the Musikverein. –“ (Lortzing’s letter to Anton Schindler in February 1834). As Lortzing was employed in Leipzig as an actor and singer, he figured that the orchestra would most likely not play any of his instrumental music — even later, when his operas had already been performed in all German­speaking theatres.

Tracklist:

1-1. WDR Funkhausorchester – Overture (09:19)
1-2. WDR Funkhausorchester – Ballet Music (10:40)
1-3. WDR Funkhausorchester – Overture (05:59)
1-4. WDR Funkhausorchester – Concert piece for horn and orchestra (14:13)
1-5. WDR Funkhausorchester – Overture (06:06)
1-6. WDR Funkhausorchester – Ballet Music (13:56)
1-7. WDR Funkhausorchester – Overture (06:52)
1-8. WDR Funkhausorchester – Concert piece for trumpet and orchestra (09:50)
1-9. WDR Funkhausorchester – Overture (06:36)

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