Franz von Suppé - Light Cavalry, Pique Dame, Boccaccio / Overtures REMASTERED (Ct.rc.: Paul Paray)

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Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) Six Overtures by Paul Paray / Remastered
00:00 Overture: Light Cavalry (Remastered 2022)
06:23 Overture: Pique Dame (Remastered 2022)
13:51 Overture: Boccaccio (Remastered 2022)

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With Poet and Peasant, the Light Cavalry of 1866 forms the keystone of the "popular" Suppé catalogue. As program music it represents a considerable achievement in verisimilitude, repeatedly demonstrated by its enlistment as "background" for film sequences showing mounted military movements. Kipling must have loved it. The cavalry arrives with a movement worthy of a horse's gallop (Allegretto brillante).

The operetta opens with an arpeggiated brass fanfare in a majestic tempo (Maestoso). This same fanfare is then taken up by the horns, then transposed into minor. A short development with the woodwinds and strings brings back the initial theme, with an ostinato that gives it a very martial side. First change of tempo (Allegro) and a new theme announced by the strings, which brings an incredible and sudden tension. The unstable melody of the violins, the dark and heavy bass and the minor mode accentuate this palpable tension. The cavalry finally arrives with a movement worthy of a horse's gallop (Allegretto brillante). Announced first by the brass, the theme is taken up by the entire orchestra. Only the clarinet interrupts this ride with a free and sad solo, declaimed like an opera recitative and punctuated by the orchestra. The theme that follows this solo is full of emotion, played by all the violins, violas and cellos in unison: the recurring sequence of notes at the end of each phrase is undoubtedly a Hungarian musical idiom. Suddenly, the cavalry takes over again before arriving at the final coda which takes up the theme of the military march one last time.

Pique Dame. Not to be confused with the Tchaikovsky masterpiece of a quarter-century later. Presumably the Suppé work is based on the same Pushkin tale about a sinister old card sharp of a countess who takes her secrets to the grave and then returns as a ghost to taunt her unwitting murderer to suicide. On second thought this archetypical Slavic plot hardly seems to be the kind of thing that would appeal to Suppé, but no précis of the libretto is to be had, and the listener is therefore free to let his fancy roam.

The aforementioned Boccaccio was given its premiere in Vienna during the season of 1878-79. As the title would suggest, its plot has to do with the sometimes scandalous doings of the "naughty writer" whose Decameron still titillates. The action takes place in Florence; the time is 1331.

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