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Hammerstein had intended to omit the overture, with the audience to watch, after the curtain rose, a blank stage on which the play-within-the-play performers and crew drifted in and began their preparations.
The four-minute overture is an event in itself: you sense the creation of a new political and cultural stage on which independent actors can seize the spotlight.
He's collaborated with Mauceri on "The Overeager Overture," which was performed at the Hollywood Bowl in 2006, and on "Serenada Schizophrana," a 2004 classical piece that premiered at Carnegie Hall and was recorded and released two years later.
The overture which Beethoven finally fixed on for Fidelio, discarding previous attempts, is an understated creation subtly foreshadowing what is to come.
A grand overture, in which a slow introduction sets the stage for the melodic textures that follow, is succeeded by a prologue, in which mythological figures speculate on the nature of love.
The album opens on Cold Little Heart, a five-minute meditation on his own organ's failings, prefaced by a slightly unconventional, five-minute overture in which orchestral soul trades off with Pink Floyd guitar.
David Trimble, Northern Ireland's most prominent Protestant leader, turned aside an overture on Tuesday by the Irish Republican Army, which said it had dismantled a portion of its arsenal.
Wagner's "Tannhäuser" Overture, which opened the concert on Saturday, had much the same feel.
Commenting on the "Romeo and Juliet" Overture-Fantasy (which also gets a winning recording here), Bychkov reminds us of Tchaikovsky's overlooked genius as a "deeply polyphonic composer," not just as a master of sumptuous melody and orchestration.
