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Cappella Aquileia: Beethoven – Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (FLAC)

Cappella Aquileia: Beethoven - Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (FLAC)

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Cappella Aquileia
Conductor: Marcus Bosch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555303-2
Release: 2022
Size: 279 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
01. Overture – Adagio – Allegro molto e con brio
02. Introduction. Allegro non troppo
03. No. 1, Poco Adagio – Allegro con brio
04. No. 2, Adagio – Allegro con brio
05. No. 3, Allegro vivace
06. No. 4, Maestoso – Andante
07. No. 5, Adagio – Andante quasi allegretto
08. No. 6, Un poco Adagio – Allegro
09. No. 7, Grave
10. No. 8, Marcia. Allegro con brio – Presto
11. No. 9, Adagio – Allegro molto
12. No. 10, Pastorale. Allegro
13. No. 11, Andante
14. No. 12, Maestoso – Adagio – Allegro
15. No. 13, Terzettino – Grotteschi. Allegro – Comodo
16. No. 14, Andante – Adagio – Allegro – Allegretto
17. No. 15, Andantino – Adagio – Allegro
18. No. 16, Finale. Allegretto – Allegro molto – Presto

Ludwig van Beethoven and the stage: this is the story of a predominantly unhappy love affair with an unexpected happy ending – the late breakthrough of Fidelio. If this paean to husbandly love had not triumphed at the third attempt, there would be little more left in the dramatic field, apart from some very fragmentary operatic attempts, than the festival music for The Ruins of Athens and King Stephen, Hungary’s First Benefactor, which Marcus Bosch and the Capella Aquileia have already recently recorded for cpo. Of course, the “more” also includes two pieces for dance theatre: the cute music for a knight’s ballet written in Bonn’s time and – far more weighty – the extensive score for the work by the famous choreographer and dancer Salvatore Viganò, which premiered under the title The Creatures of Prometheus at Vienna’s Burgtheater on 28 March 1801. What the audience saw was a rather idyllic excerpt from the wildly eventful life of the disobedient titan. He has just formed his creatures out of clay, but they cannot get beyond mindless emotions. In his anger, Prometheus at first wants to stomp them out, but then he takes them to Parnassus, where the Muses teach them basic knowledge and artistic behaviour under the eyes of Apollo. A general dance performance brings the predominantly cheerful, charming event to a close.

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