Beethoven, Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

At the request of the writer Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Beethoven composed
an overture to Collin's tragedy in five acts Coriolanus (1802) in the
spring of 1807. It was given its first performance in March 1807 in Prince
Lobkowitz's palace in Vienna. Although Beethoven's music did not bring
about the hoped-for stage revival of Collin's tragedy, the Overture made
its breakthrough as an independent concert piece. A dramatic work that
owes its somber quality to Collin's tragedy, it came to be favored for
solemn occasions.
Bernstein's impassioned renderings of Beethoven move audiences in a unique
way. "Beethoven has always meant universality to me, ever since my early
adolescence, when I first heard that unforgettable cry of 'Brüder!'. From
that moment on, every... symphony came to mean heart-to-heart
communication, traveling satellite-fashion via the cosmos itself. I offer
[this cycle] to all music-loving ears as a testament of faith and of my
most profound reactions to this greatest of all composers."
(Leonard Bernstein, 1980)

Composer:	Ludwig van Beethoven
Title:	Beethoven, Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Conductor:	Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra:	Wiener Philharmoniker
Video Director:	Humphrey Burton
Genre:	Concert
Length:	11 minutes
Cat.No.:	A05500666

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