[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 2 February 2009
This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.
Revered for his incomparable Lieder , Franz Schubert was also an avid opera-goer who yearned, largely in vain, for success as a composer of stage works. This disc features several of his less familiar early overtures, from Der Spiegelritter and Der Teufel als Hydraulicus (circa 1811/2) and his first completed opera, the Medieval fantasy Des Teufels Lustschloß (1813/4), to the Overture in B flat (1816). It is hard to believe that such accomplished and effective music was the work of a teenager.
Der Teufel als Hydraulicus, D. 4: Overture
Der Spiegelritter, D. 11: Overture
Overture in D major, D. 12
Overture in D major, D. 26
Overture in B flat major, D. 470
Des Teufels Lustschloss, D. 84: Overture
Der vierjahrige Posten, D. 190: Overture
Claudine von Villa Bella, D. 239: Overture
Die Freunde von Salamanka, D. 326: Overture