R. Strauss: Symphonische Dichtungen Tonkünstler-Orchester & Jun Märkl

• Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
• 1Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 15617:45
• Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite, Op. 60, TrV 228c:
• 2I. Ouvertüre04:04
• 3II. Menuett01:54
• 4III. Der Fechtmeister01:49
• 5IV. Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider05:34
• 6V. Das Menuett des Lully02:39
• 7VI. Courante02:34
• 8VII. Auftritt des Cléonte04:31
• 9VIII. Vorspiel03:36
• 10IX. Das Diner10:44
• Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24, TrV 158:
• 11Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24, TrV 15823:25
• Total Runtime01:18:35

Info for R. Strauss: Symphonische Dichtungen

In the spring of 1888, Richard Strauss began composing his third tone poem for large orchestra: «Don Juan». The score is headed with quotes from an incomplete poem of the same name by Nikolaus Lenaus, but the programmatic connection now seems much looser than was long believed. In June 1885 Strauss, with Hans von Bülow, had attended a performance of Paul Heyse’s drama «Don Juans Ende» («Don Juan’s End»). Was this another source of inspiration? Strauss would not conduct Mozart’s «Don Giovanni» until 1890, but he must have known the opera well. The figure of Don Juan, the great seducer who is simultaneously incapable of resisting any temptation and weary of life and who ultimately dies as a consequence, was in itself fascinating to the 24-year-old Strauss. With «Don Juan» he succeeded in creating his own drama in his own confident hand and the glowing colours of the large symphony orchestra. The piece was finished by the autumn, and although another year would pass until its premiere in Weimar on 11 November 1889, Strauss is believed to have left his score completely unaltered in that period. …

Tonkünstler-Orchester
Jun Märkl, conductor

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