by Beethoven, Matti Salminen, Kaisa Ranta, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam · Naxos · CD · EAN 0747313395675
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«Egmont» is the album by Ludwig van Beethoven with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam, released in 2019 on the Naxos label on CD.
It brings together the incidental music Beethoven composed for Goethe's Egmont, a tragedy of heroic sacrifice against oppression. Matti Salminen narrates and Kaisa Ranta sings as soprano, with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam. It is completed with marches for Tarpeja and Leonore Prohaska and the Six Minuets, WoO 10.
Recorded at Turku Concert Hall in January 2018. Catalogue number: 8.573956. Libretto with texts in German and English translations. Duration: 74:24.
For classical music enthusiasts who want to discover a theatrical side of Beethoven, with narrator and soprano soloist.
