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STRAUSS, R.: Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten / Serenade / Symphonic Fragment from Josephs Legende (Seattle Symphony, Schwarz)

Composer(s):Strauss, Richard
Artist(s) Schwarz, Gerard, Conductor • Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber Music • Orchestral
Catalogue 8.571220
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 

Richard Strauss revived some of his less well-known scores in later years, turning his richly imaginative fairytale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten into an attractively compact orchestral tone-poem. Strauss preserved the storyline and tuneful highlights of both this and his Diaghilev-commissioned ballet Josephs-Legende, which describes a biblical drama in soaring themes and splendid orchestral effects. The charming and lyrical Serenade for Winds, written when Strauss was only 17, drew the composer to the attention of Hans von Bülow, whose support and influence was of importance to Strauss’s early career.


   




Review By Scott Morrison ,Amazon.com,November 2012

…if this particular combination of the Frau ohne Schatten Symphonic Fantasy, the Josephslegende Symphonic Fragment and the youthful Serenade for Winds in E Flat appeals to you, this is the disc for you.

The Frau and Josephslegende orchestral works were done by Strauss late in his life…and although they both contain much of the music originally in the Frau opera and the Josephlegende ballet, they can be considered new works because Strauss composed much new music for them in order to make them coherent symphonic wholes.

The performances are excellent, worth having, in excellent lifelike, lush sound…

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