Thalbach Cappella Aquileia Bosch - Medea - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The young violinist Lena Neudauer is a multifaceted and versatile artist who fascinates audiences with the naturalness and straightforwardness with which she plays the violin, as if it were part of her own body. For the Beethoven Year 2020 she now interprets his Violin Concerto and two Romances InchIn this concerto I feel like a part of something much greater, which is a very elating feeling. At the same time an enormous reverence for the perfection and beauty of the whole is aroused in me.Inch Lena Neudauer's personal impression of the perfect synthesis between soloist and orchestra is shared by many famous violinists, including the Russian violinist Nathan Milstein InchIt is a miracle, something that has come to us from the ethereal heights like a divine message. We can engage in endless discussion about the revelations that Beethoven's concerto imparts to us.Inch And together with the Cappella Aquileia and the conductor Marcus Bosch, the solo and orchestral parts indeed do unite to form a perfect union.

The compositions on this album, broadly considered, are connected with Beethoven's efforts on behalf of the theater, and they also attest to his desire to compose for the larger public without having to lower his standards. The center here is formed by his music for Goethe's Egmont. The Dutch Count Egmont failed in his resistance against the tyrannous rule of the Duke of Alba and was executed. The decisive factor in Beethoven's choice of this subject must have been that Goethe himself assigned a dramaturgically important role to music above all at the end of his play, and in his composition Beethoven followed these pretextual givens to the letter. When Egmont, in prison prior to his execution, sees the vision of his beloved Klärchen as the personification of liberty, then Egmont's words and the musically designed vision join together in a melodrama. The album also includes three overtures and Wellington's Victory, in which Beethoven combines the older tradition of the Inchbattaglia,Inch the musical depiction of a battle, with victory pathos. It's effect lies not so much in the masterful treatment of the musical material itself as in the development of a spatial dimension for a realistic battle scene and in the big sound overpowering the listener, in short in it's theatrical character. During Beethoven's lifetime it was his most successful composition.

The work of Capella Alamire is highly specialized. Apart from a few contemporary works the group has taken on, Capella Alamire primarily sings Franco-Flemish music of the 15th and 16th centuries. These are as close as one can get to authentic performances of these great works.