The work also incorporates excerpts from Beethoven's incidental music for King Stephan and Leonore Prohaska, and a choral excerpt from Opferlied. Accompanying the Orchestre symphonique de Montr_al are the OSM Chorus, Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin and actor Colm Feore.
"The General is intended to be a work of hope, inspiration and bravery, one that draws on the very foundations of Beethoven's music," reads a statement from the OSM.
Produced by Wilhem Hellweg and Carl Talbot, the double-disc recording with English and French narrations is scheduled for release in 2008, Analekta's 20th-anniversary season.
