I love Lenore #3 before the finale. I grew up with it and it's so unbelievably exciting that I have always felt a hole when its not there....a BIG hole! Almost worse was Leinsdorf who took away the ending by blending it into the final scene without interuption. I'm new to this blog stuff and not sure how clean you have to be but the absence of that final climax...?? I've read the stated opinion that it's just wrong to include #3 at that spot and wondered how Bohm, and Haitink and Tennstedt had made such terrible decisions. Fidelio is not, to my mind, an organic masterpiece...not a cohesive whole that leads on seamlessly or even propulsively to the end. It's a mixed bag of highs and not-so-highs. For all of the beauty and power of the quartet and the chorus and Florestan's aria we also get Rocco's stuff and Absheulichers "almost" greatness and Pizarro's cartoonish bad man. One more high, the biggest of all, doesn't strike me as wrong at all.
Fidelio and the pesky Leonore #3 Overture!
I read that Beethoven had intended for the finale of Fidelio to start within 7 seconds of the last note of the Leonore and Florestan duet. A practice was begun to insert the Leonore #3 overture in between these two parts to accommodate the scene change (from dungeon to prison parade grounds). This I could understand in live performances, yet there are ways to cleverly make that scene change happen fast as in the DVD with Nylund and Kaufmann by having a curtain lift in the back of the dungeon scene exposing the new scene for the finale.
At any rate, I remove the Leonore #3 overture from all my folders before playing them on my MP3 player or burning discs for the car. I would remove the overture from the DVDs but it is probably not easy to do, so instead simply skip over the overture.
Oops: Third option should be Leonore #3, not #4.
At any rate, I remove the Leonore #3 overture from all my folders before playing them on my MP3 player or burning discs for the car. I would remove the overture from the DVDs but it is probably not easy to do, so instead simply skip over the overture.
Oops: Third option should be Leonore #3, not #4.
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