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Karl Goldmark, Andras Korodi, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Goldmark: Overtures
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. Sakuntala, overture for orchestra (or piano), Op. 13
2. Im Fr?hling, overture for orchestra, Op 36
3. Prometheus Bound, overture for orchestra, Op 38
4. In Italien, overture for orchestra, Op 49

CD Details

All Artists: Karl Goldmark, Andras Korodi, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Title: Goldmark: Overtures
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hungaroton
Release Date: 3/11/1993
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 750582157226, 599181125522, 5991811255220

Synopsis

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Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark enjoyed his first 15 minutes of fame in the 19th century as the composer of the grand opera, The Queen of Sheba. During the next century, he enjoyed another 15 minutes when Leonard Bernstein recorded the charming Rustic Wedding Symphony. He was what the Germans call a "Kleinmeister" or Little Master, a very good, ut not great composer. These overtures demonstrate the point exactly. The are all really enjoyable, full of good tunes, well orchestrated, but in the last analysis not as memorable as, say, overtures by Wagner or Dvorák--to mention a couple of contemporaries. But that doesn't mean you can't have a good time with them. --David Hurwitz

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CD Reviews

Colorful Music, Well Played

08/29/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Most of the overtures on this CD show up as fillers on other discs (such as Yondoni Butt's enjoyable recording of "The Rustic Wedding Symphony" and the Chang/Conlon rendition of the Violin Concerto), but it's nice to have them all in one convenient package. Even when Goldmark is at his most serious, as in "Prometheus," he's really not very profound, and indeed the best music here comes in the lighthearted "Im Fruhling" and "In Italien." Most attractive of all is the latter, a kind of Hungarian "Carnival Overture" with a (very) slight Italian accent. The Budapest percussion section has fun with this one, and they are accorded understandable prominence by the engineers in a mostly very good recording.Conductor Korodi is sympathetic his countryman's cause, and his orchestra plays well for him, catching the pathos of "Prometheus," the tenderness of "Sakuntala" (both of which ramble a bit, though this is not the performers' fault!).In short, not great music certainly, but it's quite entertaining, a pleasant way to spend an hour."