von Weber/Berlioz - Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op. 64 (1819/1841)
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2024
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 - 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
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Aufforderung zum Tanze, Rondeau brillante, Op. 65 for piano (1819)
Orchestrated in 1841 by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Dedication: Caroline Brandt, composer's wife
Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Weber dedicated Invitation to the Dance to his wife Caroline (they had been married only a few months). He labelled the work "rondeau brillante", and he wrote it while also writing his opera Der Freischütz. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called Invitation to the Waltz, but this is a mistranslation of the original.
It was the first concert waltz to be written: that is, the first work in waltz form meant for listening rather than for dancing. John Warrack calls it "the first and still perhaps the most brilliant and poetic example of the Romantic concert waltz, creating within its little programmatic framework a tone poem that is also an apotheosis of the waltz in a manner that was to remain fruitful at least until Ravel's choreographic poem, La valse…".
It was also the first piece that, rather than being a tune for the dancers to dance to or a piece of abstract music, was a programmatic description of the dancers themselves.
Invitation to the Dance was part of the repertoire of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and many other pianists. It has been recorded by great artists of the past such as Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Ignaz Friedman and Yvonne Lefébure, through to those of the present day such as Stephen Hough, Jean-François Heisser, Michael Endres, Hamish Milne, and Balázs Szokolay. The Carl Tausig transcription has been recorded by Benno Moiseiwitsch and Philip Fowke. 
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my professor for orchestration always used to say berlioz was just a weird crazy guy but in a good way (much like my professor was) and I can see it now. only knew the symphonie fantastique before that.
Underrated master light years ahead of his time. Wagner was a total copycat, too. Beyond admiration, I’d say. Watch Bernstein’s analysis of Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet next to Rienzi Overture and Tristan. Scandalous!
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La vera grandezza di Berlioz, in questa occasione, è stata quella di nascondersi dietro la musica di Weber, e ricrearla nel modo più vicino possibile a quella del compositore tedesco; la mia sensazione è che se Weber avesse orchestrato quest'opera non lo avrebbe fatto in modo molto diverso da Berlioz. Un meraviglioso incontro tra due genii della Musica...
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To be expected, every note in this orchestration seems perfectly placed.
I wonder if this has ever been played in the Vienna New Year's Concert.
A concepção origi al para piano de weber, levada às alturas com a orquestração de Berlioz.
The introduction sounds quite like Beethoven... (Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43)
Or maybe just the style of late classical/early romantic era
Lebhafte und wunderschöne Interpretation dieses perfekt komponierten und fein arrangierten Meisterwerks mit farbenreichen doch perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente und unvergleichliche Maestro dirigiert das weltklassige Orchester im rhythmischen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Mehr als wunderbar!