Schubert - Rosamunde, D. 797, Incidental Music (reference rec.: George Szell, Royal Concertgebouw)

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Rosamunde, D. 797, Incidental Music
00:00 I. Overture from Die Zauberharfe, D. 644
10:07 II. Ballet Music No. 2
17:16 III. Entr’acte nach dem 3. Aufzug
23:57 IV. Entr’acte nach dem 1. Aufzug

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Conductor: George Szell
Recorded in 1957, at Amsterdam
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Schubert was 26 years old and had just completed his lieder cycle La Belle Meunière when Josef Kupelwieser commissioned him to write incidental music for an evening starring one of his protégés. The text, a drama entitled Rosamunde, princesse de Chypre, was written by Helmina von Chézy, and set in the Mediterranean. By the time he composed this incidental music, Schubert had already written some fifteen stage works, but without any success. The audience's encouraging response to the two performances of Rosamunde was unexpected, and gave him renewed confidence. The music for this "great romantic drama in four acts" comprises ten parts written for soprano, chorus and orchestra, to which Schubert added an Overture the day after the premiere.
The story of Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus, inspired Schubert to write a sumptuous work, with an orchestral dimension as important as that of his last symphonies.

Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus, is just a baby when her parents are murdered by the treacherous Fulvio, who aspires to the throne. The little girl is taken in and raised anonymously as a shepherdess, until she is old enough to know the truth and claim her place on the throne of Cyprus. She is supported in her fight by the Prince of Crete Afonso, to whom she was promised from birth and with whom she falls in love without knowing his true identity. When Fulvio tries to kill Rosamunde with a poisoned letter, he is caught in his own trap and dies by the same poison he intended for the princess. Rosamunde is thus restored to her rightful place on the throne of Cyprus.

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