MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - GERMANY: A Musical Tour of Bavaria, its Palaces and Castles
Bavaria
Wiekersheim Palace and Landscape, Baden-Wurttemberg
Wiekersheim Palace (interiors)
Wiekersheim Palace (gardens)
Bavarian Forest
Prunn Castle and Landscape
Marienberg Fortress, Wurzburg
Date of Production: 2010-05-19
Playing Time: 00:53:00
Catalogue Number: 2.110243 UPC: 747313524358
UPC: 747313524358
The Places
The Road of Romance, in South Bavaria, leads through the countryside to the great castle of Weikersheim, former residence of the Counts and Princes Hohenlohe. Further exploration of Bavaria and the Bavarian Forest leads to Prunn Castle on its rocky eminence, and finally to Würzburg on the river Main and the Marienberg Fortress.
The Music
Max Bruch, a native of Cologne, enjoyed a career that took him as a conductor to Liverpool, Coblenz, Breslau and Bonn before his final years in Berlin. His first Violin Concerto remains among his most popular works. Carl Maria von Weber led an even more varied life that took him to musical centres in Germany and Austria. He was a pioneer of German romantic opera, and three opera overtures are chosen here. Der Freischütz (The Marksman) evokes the spirit of the German forest, while Euryanthe explores more exotic territory, as does Oberon, Weber's final opera, written for London in 1826, the last year of his life.
