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Friedrich Kuhlau Opera: William Shakespeare, drama with music, first performance 1826, Copenhagen Libretto: Casper Johannes Boye Orchestra: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Michael Schønwandt To the Danish drama William Shakespeare, dealing with a legend from the great English playwright’s youth about his pouching and rivalry with the local squire. Kuhlau wrote vert poetic, fairy-like incidental music. It was written in the same year as Weber’s Oberon and Mendelssohn’s …
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by jackpoint188, on April 9 2009 @ 11:39 pm
Nice overture, though it sounds very much like Berlioz.