Release Date: 01 July 2004
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313587926
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Imperial Fanfares
Description
Imperial FanfaresFanfares have always exercised a fascination for mankind. The loud, penetrating sounds of the fanfare serve to alarm, to warn, to rouse and to summon attention. For hundreds of years this function of fanfares and signals has not changed. At the present time too they call for public attention. They sound out as signals from the distance or at the opening of cultural and sporting displays, the inaugurations of statesmen, events, parties and presentation of products. When we speak of imperial fanfares, we think inevitably of imperial and princely courts. Trumpeters and drummers in the later Middle Ages constituted an indispensable element of the princely court establishment. Court trumpeters exercised their function whenever the monarch appeared in public and on his withdrawal. They accompanied him similarly for imperial council meetings, at coronations and acts of homage. To guarantee an impressive effect, it was usual at coronation and marriage festivities to offer the imperial sound of the court trumpeter as a tribute. As the climax of such events of high ceremony it was the practice to have the trumpeters of the various imperial and princely courts playing at once. From the meeting of King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Sigismund I of Poland with the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I at Schwechat, when, on 17th July 1515, two of his grandchildren married the children of the two kings, there survives the account of the court commentator Cuspinian: ‘that it was during the later celebration in Vienna Neustadt that it first happened that the Emperor appeared with 45 trumpeters and six drummers’ (Musik in Österreich, ed. Gottfried Kraus). La Marche Italienne or Bruit de Guerre (Noise of War) are exceptional examples of how ceremony and festivity were celebrated in France in its heyday in the seventeenth century under André Danican Philidor, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Jean-Baptiste Lully. Fanfares at official occasions at the Imperial Habsburg court served not only to add splendour to a ceremony, but were also functional music at imperial receptions, baptisms, dynastic name days and birthdays and other royal festivities. Church celebrations were introduced by Intrade. The musical morning prayer Prière du Matin by Altenburg belongs to court church ceremonial. Entertainment and amusement at the Vienna court in no way took second place. Examples of this are the divertimento fanfares, the Toccata by Monteverdi and Schmelzer’s Equestrian Ballet performed at the Hofburg in Vienna in 1667 on the occasion of the betrothal of Leopold I and the Infanta Margareta of Spain, resounding evidence. In the state rooms there was also dance music from the court trumpeters. A fine example of dance fanfares is the Festtafelmusik (Festive Table Music). The brass at the imperial table were known as Trombet-undt musikalischen Tafeldienst (Trumpet and Musical Table Service). At court banquets and ceremonial meals it
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
