Thankyou Eric for the clarification. The liner note implies that the work was written as part of a score of incidental music but it does not explicitly say it was. The brevity of the work suggested it could be a theatre overture although the orchestration sounds quite full so I was not sure those instrumental forces would be available in a theatre pit - but clearly they could!
Don't actually know if their liner notes mention this, but I think Loewe's "Themisto" overture may not be stand-alone, but rather may belong to his incidental music to a play by Raupach on that subject, which a 1898 biography of the composer mentions ("Carl Loewe: Deutschlands Balladencomponist".) (In fact, now that I check via Worldcat and whatnot, the full title of the overture, as published in 2018, is "Themisto : Ouvertüre der Schauspielmusik zur Tragödie von Ernst Raupach".)
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