Sterling's Franz Berwald: The Battle of Leipzig, featuring the Malmö Opera Orchestra under Niklas Willén, brings to CD the remaining extant orchestral works of Franz Berwald that have not previously made it to recordings. The title work dates from 1828 -- the same year as Berwald's famous Septet for winds in B flat -- and is clearly written in response to Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 (1813), then one of the Bonn master's most famous and frequently heard compositions; Berwald simply picked a slightly later ...
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Sterling's Franz Berwald: The Battle of Leipzig, featuring the Malmö Opera Orchestra under Niklas Willén, brings to CD the remaining extant orchestral works of Franz Berwald that have not previously made it to recordings. The title work dates from 1828 -- the same year as Berwald's famous Septet for winds in B flat -- and is clearly written in response to Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 (1813), then one of the Bonn master's most famous and frequently heard compositions; Berwald simply picked a slightly later Napoleonic defeat than Beethoven had and decided to forego the cannon. Unlike Berwald's earlier Symphony in A (1820), this piece is firmly ensconced in late classical style, though the orchestration shows some commonality with the approach of Hector Berlioz, surprising as Berlioz had yet to roll out his mature orchestral style with his Symphonie Fantastique, though he would do so shortly thereafter. The Double Violin Concerto (1817) and Thema mit Variationen (1816) both have one foot in...
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