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Goldmark - Merlin Overture

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Uploaded by on May 14, 2010

Overture to the opera "Merlin" by Hungarian Jewish composer Karl Goldmark (1830-1915). Siegfried Lipiner's libretto is a loose retelling of several Arthurian legends from the viewpoint of the wizard Merlin in the tragic mode. The music is a delightful mélange of Wagnerian chromaticism and Schumannian lyricism, full of ingenious textural effects representing otherworldly forces.

Gerd Schaller conducts the Philharmonie Festiva, a Munich-based orchestra consisting of members of the Munich Bach Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and other leading Bavarian ensembles.

The painting is "The Beguiling of Merlin" by Edward Burne-Jones.

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  • The overture starts with the theme of the daemon indication the dramatics coming in the next 3 hours of the high romantic opera, the music of this overture show especially at it's dreamingful end.

    An opera very well composed from point of music and lycrics, showing the drama of love, glory moments and mystery characters.

    

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