The Napoleon Connection
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"Napoleon Crossing the Alps," by Jacques-Louis David, from 1801.
“Audacity succeeds as often as it fails,” he once said--and his life and legend certainly prove that. He rose from obscurity to military hero, then revolutionary, then Emperor and conqueror, ending up defeated, disgraced, and exiled.
In this hour, Napoleon Bonaparte in works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Kodaly, Prokofiev, and more.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Beethoven: Complete Symphonies [for Symphony No. 3] |
Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend |
Challenge Classics CC72550 |
608917255027 |
| Gossec: Aux Armes, Citoyens [for La Marseillaise] |
Les Jacobins, Mathieu Lussier |
ATMA Classique ACD2 2595 |
722056259521 |
| Rousseau : Le Devin de Village |
Cants Firmus Consort, Andreas Reize |
CPO 777 260-2 |
761203726028 |
| Great Comedy Overtures [for overture to The Secret Marriage, by Domenico Cimarosa] |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lance Friedel, |
Naxos 8.573418 |
747313341870 |
| Mehul: L'Irato, ou l'Emporte |
L’Arte del Mondo. Werner Ehrhardt |
Capriccio 60128 |
4006408601289 |
| Coronation Music for Napoleon I |
St. Petersburg Capella Orchestra, Vladislav Tchernushenko |
Koch Schwann 3-1208-2 H1 |
099923120827 |
| Beethoven: Complete Overtures |
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman |
Arte Nova ANO 578310 |
723721093655 |
| Prokofiev: War and Peace |
National Orchestra Of France, Mstislav Rostropovich |
Erato 0190295854768 |
0190295854768 |
| Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture |
Mariinsky Theater Orchestra of Kirov, Valery Gergiev |
Mariinsky MAR0503 |
822231850328 |
| Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 & Wellington’s Victory |
Vienna Academy Orchestra, Martin Haselbock |
Alpha 473 |
3760014194733 |
| Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite |
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer. |
Philips 462 824-2 |
028946282427 |
