Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030503700
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Majestic Marches
Description
Majestic MarchesThe March has aninevitable part to play in human history. Marco Polo remarked on the use ofmusic by the armies of China to terrify the enemy before a battle. Militarymusic, however, has a more precise purpose, whatever alarm it may strike intothe hearts of those who hear it. Drums and trumpets may serve as usefulsignals, to advance or retreat, to eat or to sleep. The same instruments andtheir near relations may serve to keep an army moving together, and may serveto inspire feelings of bravery and patriotism. At the same time a march canprovide at suitable accompaniment to an occasion of solemnity, a wedding, afuneral or a state ceremony.The NapoleonicWars, with nations in arms to a greater extent than ever before in Europe, provideda stimulus for military music and injected a martial element into much of themusic of the concert hall. Beethoven, after all, achieved one of his greatestpopular successes with the appalling Wellington's Victory, his BattleSymphony. Since Napoleon the March has never looked back.The presentcollection of Majestic Marches opens with Wagner's ceremonial march for theentry of the nobles at the singing contest of the Wartburg in his operaTannhauser. During the 1914-1918 War the French composer Ravel, representativeof a younger generation, suggested that Saint-Sa?½ns would have been betteremployed in a munitions factory than writing music. His French Military Marchmarks an earlier patriotic occasion, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.The Russian composerIppolitov-Ivanov was a product of the country's academic tradition, as itdeveloped in the later 19th century. He spent some time in Georgia, where here-organised the Tblisi Conservatory, and this is reflected to some extent inmusic such as the Procession of the Sardar, the commander's march from hisfirst Suite of Caucasian Sketches, Opus 10.GiacomoMeyerbeer, whose work dominated French grand opera in the middle of the 19thcentury, was born at Vogelsdorf, near Berlin, in 1791, the son of a rich andcultured Jewish businessman, Jakob Herz Beer. Contracting his own name toMeyerbeer, and substituting Giacomo for Jakob, he established himself at firstin Italy, where his operas enjoyed considerable success, following this with aseries of works for Paris, culminating in the spectacular L'africaine,mounted in Paris after the composer's death in 1864. The Coronation March istaken from Meyerbeer's opera Le proph?¿te, based on the curiousAnabaptist attempt at primitive communism in M??nster in the 16th century. Theopera ends with the M??nster palace in flames, the Anabaptists opposing theirleader blown to pieces by an exploding powder magazine, and a generalconflagration that consumes the prophet of the title, John of Leyden.Tchaikovsky'sfirst ballet, completed in 1876, was Swan Lake, on a subject that hadinspired him to amateur performance at home, on one occasion with theassistance of the French composer Saint-Sa?½ns. The second of the three completeballets. The Sleeping
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
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