Luigi Cherubini - Anacréon - Ouverture

[@unknownchannel3141]

I think this is among the most brilliant pieces I've ever listened to. 2:00

[@MegaCirse]

Certaines musiques sont à la fois une mort et une naissance. Les sons contenus dans celle-ci atteignent la fin de leur vie. Pourtant elle existe dans un état d'énergie potentielle permanente, tout comme la mémoire d'une âme décédée aura toujours le pouvoir de nous émouvoir 🕊 Merci

[@nickfuller8764]

Just magnificent.

[@leonardomauretti6742]

Musica straordinaria con influenze che si rincorrono, da una parte il primo Movimento della Sinfonia Imperiale di Haydn, dall'altra la Leonora n°1 di Beethoven. Siamo nella transizione tra XVIII e XIX Secolo di cui Cherubini fu forse il più grande esponente. L'ammirazione che gli tributarono tutti i suoi colleghi ( magari con l'eccezione di Berlioz che invece ammirava molto Spontini ), a partire da Beethoven, dice molto della sua importanza. Con Medea era nel frattempo arrivato ad un culmine straordinario, unico a raccogliere in modo appropriato l'eredità di Gluck e portarla nell'Ottocento.

[@macinafrancesco3516]

Opera straordinaria che purtroppo non viene rappresentata in Italia dal 1983

[@EdoardoFittipaldi]

Karajan is fantastic, here! I didn't know that he performed this masterpiece

[@poncione]

Esiste anche una vecchia incisione con la Staatskapelle di Berlino del 1939. Un tempo questa magnifica ouverture era nel repertorio delle grandi orchestre e grandi direttori, ma stranamente dopo gli anni ottanta è stata purtroppo dimenticata.

[@paoloveronese8667]

Fantastica interpretazione !

[@horsemeattball]

One of the finest overtures ever written. What is an opera-ballet, exactly?

[@ernstrennhofer-baritz736]

This very special art of so called opera-ballet was created during on the french court especially for the absolutistic "Sun King" Louis XIV., who was an excellent dancer himself. His highly respected royal composer of the court Jean Babtiste Lully wrote a great number of operas and also excellent music on different occasions for the royal court. Opera was an emense expensive entertainmant and only performed at the royal court for aristocrats an the nobility the Theatre Royal de Roi in the castle of Versailles. King Louis XIV. was a great monarch and there is no doubt about that he not only was a very talented, but indeed an excellent dancer, who had given the part of the rising sun, in the "Ballet Royal de la Nuit" when he almost was 14. So his great love and affection for ballet was an important reason, to develope the typical french art of opera-ballet. In this very case the parts of singing and dancing have equel rights on stage. In opposite to France, opera in Italy was never written, composed or performed in this way. Ballet never had such a high status in Italian opera like singing, the very famous art of bel canto. Luigi Cherubini who was born in Florenz and who lived between 1760 - 1842 choose this, at his times, "old fashioned" style of opera-ballet, because of the plot of the story about the ancient greece poet "Anacreon". It was given first at the Paris Opéra Salle Montansier in 1802, so this was after the french revolution. Times had changed and now people were alowed to buy tickets and enjoy this sort of amusement by visiting an opera performance in at theatres which also were open to the puplic. But in case of "Anacreon" neither critics nor the audience were realy convinced nor amused by this sort of opera, which had a touch of anachronism at these days and so it was not a success at all. In 1804, after only seven performances the opera was taken from the schedul and never given again for 179 years. In 1983 il Teatro alla Scala di Milano staged it for a series of performances. As a great admirer of Maestro Luigi Cherubini I decided to travel to Milano and, lucky me, I got a ticket to visite one of these very few performances. So, nearly fourty years ago I have seen "Anacreon" on stage. Although this explanation became a little to long, I hope it wasn't to boring for you.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

@@ernstrennhofer-baritz736 A really interesting read, thank you for taking the trouble to write such a detailed account in such impeccable English.

[@stevencovacci9764]

Beethoven -- Leonora Ov. theme

[@alexanderleto7287]

Beethoven was heavily inspired by Cherubini. This can be heard here

[@GenesisProgressive72]

Yes! You can clearly hear the Eroica's theme at times

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

and Mendelssohn

[@Klinossophistis]

Εὐχαριστῶ πάρα πολύ.

[@csohorn4]

Huh?

[@marianaziramendoncagomes5830]

Música digna.

[@samsumgtaba6665]

Înălțător estetica mentalitatii

[@stevencovacci9764]

also Hummel Piano Ct. No.2

[@fquaranta8093]

Napoleone sosteneva che la musica di Cherubini facesse rumore. Io trovo che sia una musica solida, poderosa e narrante…Ma non sono Napoleone!

[@poncione]

Non è detto che un Grande condottiero sia anche un genio della musica...