Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn & Case Scaglione – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Symphonies after Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (2024)
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Only a few days prior to his death, the once-celebrated violinist and composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-99) summed up his eventful life and did so with a bitter undertone: »I now have resided for almost two years in Bohemia at the Rothlhotta Castle of Baron Stillfried [Červená Lhota in today’s Czech Republic]. Although I have free upkeep for myself and my family, I am nevertheless in every respect simply a beggar. […] I will assume, since I certainly know that my name and my works are famous throughout Europe, that I have brought pleasure to half a million people in this populous region of the world. Now if each one of these persons were to throw (!!) one little penny to me, or better put, to my family – for it is no longer of use to me – what […] considerable support it would be for the abandoned, miserable family of a man, who, like the one in the Gospel, did not bury his talent!«
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Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn & Case Scaglione – Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021)
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“…our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free”. (Nikolai Kapustin)
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Case Scaglione – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021)
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With his third symphony, Beethoven offers his contemporaries the most developed and longest score ever composed in this genre in is time. What aspects of this work do you still retain today as the fundamental characteristics of musical romanticism? – This symphony gives us the feeling of experiencing the world as conscious beings. Nothing could be more illustrative of the Romantic Era than that. Before Beethoven music was about creating an esthetic outside of ourselves. From this symphony onward we have the feeling of being the thinker of thoughts and the ones with agency, the idea that art lies in our subjective experience of the world. Through this means of expression we are able to experience music that is reflective of the human experience, its’ joys and sorrows. He doesn’t use many chords or instruments that were not used before him but somehow, we sense the fault lines of history shifting beneath our feet. This power and magnitude are something that remains until this day and that is the true genius. …
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