Famous Marches (Incls 'Marche miliitaire', 'Radetzky-Marsch' & 'La damnation de Faust')

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FAMOUS MARCHES
Famous Marches (Incls 'Marche miliitaire', 'Radetzky-Marsch' & 'La damnation de Faust')
Failoni Orchestra, Budapest / Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra / Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / various conductors

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Release Date: Monday 30 June 2008

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Martial music has a long history, as a device for stirring soldiers to acts of valour or sometimes, if Marco Polo is to be believed, for terrifying the enemy.

The march itself, as a means, through regular rhythm, of ensuring that the marchers proceed in step, may combine the exhortatory and the deterrent, but can be used to express solemnity in a slow march, light-heartedness in a quick march or triumph in a march of victory, even if, with the poet, we believe there is no hope for those that march in step.

The present collection of marches opens with the famous Grand March from Verdi's opera Aida. The opera itself was written to mark not the opening of the Suez Canal, which had taken place a year before, but the opening of the Cairo Opera House in 1871. It celebrates the triumphant return of the Egyptian general Radames, bringing with him the signs of victory, a lavish procession of soldiers, animals and captives, a spectacle that has provided opportunities for directorial extravagance in more ostentatious productions of the work.

Tracks:

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Triumph March

Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite, Op. 11: III. Alla marcia

Hector Berlioz
La damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust), Op. 24: Hungarian March, "Rakoczy March"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act II: March of the Priests

Edward Elgar
Military March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance"

Franz Schubert
Military March No. 1 (arr. for orchestra)

Edvard Grieg
Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 56: Homage March

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: Act V: Entr'acte: Wedding March

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Festive March

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Marche solennelle

Camille Saint-Saens
Marche miliitaire

Franz von Suppe
Fatinitza: March

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker, Op. 71: March

Johann Strauss I
Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228