Johan Helmich Roman: Drottningholmsmusiken on CD

Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)

Drottningholmsmusiken

Andrew Manze, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

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(Musik für die königliche Hochzeit von Adolf Fredrik, Kronprinz von Schweden und Lovisa Ulrika, Prinzessin von Preussen 1744)

Artists:: Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2010
Item number:: 6338709
UPC/EAN:: 7318590016022
Release date:: 26.5.2010

Für die Hochzeit des schwedischen Kronprinzen Adolf Fredrik mit der preußischen Prinzessin Luise Ulrike komponierte Roman 1744 seine „Beilagermusik“, wie es im Original so schön heißt. Die Komposition sollte zu einem Schlüsselwerk der schwedischen Kunstmusik werden. Sie besteht aus 24 Einzelsätzen, die flexibel während der vier Tage dauernden Feierlichkeiten genutzt werden konnten.

Auf seinen Reisen durch Europa von 1710 bis Ende der 1730er Jahre hatte Roman den neuen, „galanten“ Stil kennengelernt, sich von Komponisten wie Sammartini und Leo inspirieren lassen, und seine Eindrücke in dieser fröhlichen und prickelnden Festmusik verarbeitet. Hier aufgeführt unter der Leitung von Andrew Manze, dem Chefdirigenten des Helsingborger Orchesters und einem der weltweit führenden Spezialisten für die Wiedergabe von Barockmusik.

Composed for the 1744 celebrations at Drottningholm Palace of the marriage between the Swedish crown prince Adolf Fredrik and Lovisa Ulrika of Prussia, Johan Helmich Roman's Drottningholm Music is a key work in Swedish art music. Consisting of 24 individual movements, it forms an inventory of short pieces suitable for providing the proper musical ambience for the royal celebrations, which took place over four days. As befitted the occasion, the character of the music is buoyant and witty, and when the atmosphere occasionally veers away from the carefree, it is towards a graceful melancholy rather than grief or pain. This also conforms to the spirit of the time, as does the style of the music itself: varied and brimming with ideas, but never weighed down by dry learnedness or disproportionate displays of emotion. Roman had spent formative years in London in the 1710s, and in the 1730s made a long journey throughout Europe, absorbing the new, ‘galant' currents in music. Although by 1744 he was suffering from failing health, he was at his peak as a composer, and in this sparkling and joyful music he demonstrates both his innate talent and the impressions gathered from music by composers such as Sammartini and Leonardo Leo. The work is performed by Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, guided by Andrew Manze, the orchestra's principal conductor and one of the world's leading specialists on baroque music.