Pierard/New Zealand Symphony/Judd: Ah! Perfido | CD review

(Naxos)Beethoven wrote his incidental music to Goethe's Egmont for a ­production in Vienna in 1810. ­Dealing with the ­transgressive love between the ­aristocratic Egmont and the ­bourgeois Klärchen – both involved in the­ ­resistance against the Spanish ­occupation of the Netherlands – the play has long been regarded as one of the great ­libertarian statements in German ­literature, and the score, ­almost ­inevitably, invites comparison with ...

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