Straus: Piano Concerto / Serenade

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Label
CPO
Release Date
August 7, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STRAUS, OSCAR
    • PERFORMER
      Triendl, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Theis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 07, 2020
    • UPC
      761203528028
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555280-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Moderato, ma non troppo lento - Allegro con brio

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    2. II. Lento assai

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    3. III. A tempo giusto

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    4. Der Reigen, Konzertwalzer (arr. F. Marszalek for orchestra)

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    5. I. Allegro commodo

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    6. II. Scherzino

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    7. III. Andantino

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    8. IV. Walzer

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    9. V. Finale: Alla marcia

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    10. Einleitung: Andante

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    11. Walzer No. 1

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    12. Walzer No. 2

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis

    13. Walzer No. 3 - Coda

      Composer: Oscar Straus

      Ensemble: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

      Conductor: Ernst Theis


Since Oscar Straus began his career in the cabaret, it was only natural for him to bet on comedy in his first operetta, Die lustigen Nibelungen (1904), a parody of the Nibelungenlied, Wagner, and Wilhelminism. In this way, Straus, more than any of his Viennese contemporaries, became the heir to Jacques Offenbach, the founder of the genre, whose last period of flourishing influenced Straus (who was born in 1870) as well as Franz Leh�r, Leo Fall, and Emmerich K�lm�n. Straus's Serenade for String Orchestra is written in an always-radiant classical style. Especially the last two movements, "Walzer" and "Alla marcia," have an elegant structure already anticipating the later operettas. The highly romantic Piano Concerto in B minor displays a very different compositional design. Even though the three movements based on Franz Liszt's "New German" model form a seamless whole, they remain clearly recognizable and follow the pattern of the Classical-Romantic piano concerto, a form to which his teacher Max Bruch adhered until the very end. Oscar Straus's claim that he was Bruch's "favorite pupil" is made understandable by this romantic piano concerto, but he very much moves beyond his teacher, is bolder harmonically, and is more reminiscent of Liszt, whom Bruch rejected, along with his idea to have movements form sequences without breaks.