Cover Beethoven: Vocal Works

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Album-Release:
2019

HRA-Release:
08.11.2019

Label: Naxos

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra & Leif Segerstam

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
  • 1Primo amore piacer del ciel, WoO 9215:57
  • 2No, non turbarti, WoO 92a06:54
  • 3Ah! Perfido, Op. 6513:40
  • 42 Arias for "Die schöne Schusterin", WoO 91: No. 2, Soll ein Schuh nicht drücken05:58
  • 5Prüfung des Küssens, WoO 89 "Meine weise Mutter spricht"05:38
  • 6Mit Mädeln sich vertragen, WoO 9004:13
  • 72 Arias for "Die schöne Schusterin", WoO 91: No. 1, O welch ein Leben, ein ganzes Meer03:12
  • 8Ne' giorni tuoi felici, WoO 93, Hess 12007:55
  • 9Tremate, empi, tremate, Op. 11609:04
  • Total Runtime01:12:31

Info for Beethoven: Vocal Works



Ludwig van Beethoven’s only oratorio Christus am Ölberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) portrays Jesus’ emotional struggles in the garden of Gethsemane before being seized by soldiers and taken for crucifixion. The work has an Italianate form with recitatives, arias and choruses, and its operatic attributes show Christ as a very human figure, a dramatic precursor to the sufferings of Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio. The tender and beautiful Elegischer Gesang is a memorial to the young wife of one of Beethoven’s close friends.

"When I was born, in 1944, all the family’s friends in the choirs that my father conducted and in which my mother sang were saying: ‘Finally they got their Beethoven.’ They were referring to me and, yes, it wasn’t long before I was playing his symphonies, arranged for piano duet, either with one of my sisters or my father, taking turns at the different parts. I had learned to notate music by the age of 5, as well as writing and reading capital letters. So I was a wunderkind actually! and, when dinner was ready, the call that came through the window was the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony whistled by my father.

As regards my professional conducting career, there was my memorable first marathon of all his symphonies one Sunday in Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall, using three orchestras but just me as the conductor. So, the Beethoven musical idiom got a special space between my ears. Consequently, I was delighted to receive Naxos’ invitation to record Beethoven’s choral works, following the successful release of my Sibelius series for the label with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra." (Leif Segerstam)

Hanna-Leena Haapamäki, soprano
Jussi Myllys, tenor
Niklas Spångberg, bass
Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor

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