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R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic
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R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

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Composer
STRAUSS, RICHARD
Artist
Falletta
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 10, 2017
Catalog #
8573460
UPC
747313346073

About

Listen to the Naxos Podcast to learn more about this release

I sure hope the folks in Buffalo know what a prize they have in JoAnn Falletta. Her Naxos discography has few peers in terms of imaginative programming and quality of results. The city couldn’t ask for a more positive or alluring cultural calling card, and the present release offers a case in point. There have been many fine recordings of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, but this one stands with the best: for clarity, elegance, distinguished solo work (superb oboe, William Preucil’s solo violin), you name it. Although scored for a chamber orchestra, it’s amazing how congested and fussy so many performances sound. Not here. Just listen to the opening processional of “The Dinner,” with its bold horns and transparent textures. Great stuff.

However, the real item of interest is the “Symphony-Suite” arranged by D. Wilson Ochoa from Ariadne auf Naxos, the original companion work to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Arranging suites from Strauss’ operas is a trend that can only be encouraged. Strauss did it himself, of course, but mostly without much enthusiasm or imagination. So here’s a case where the intervention of more caring hands is clearly called for.

This suite, forty minutes in all, contains three chunks from the prologue and four from the opera itself. It is gorgeous. Even those who know the opera well may be surprised at how much lovely material slips by without notice in stage performances, such as the “Intermezzo” music on the second to last track here (sound clip). You do get some of the more famous bits (“Es gibt ein Reich,” for example, and the closing scene), but it really is astonishing how much care Strauss lavished on sections that flit by as mere accompaniment–never mind the thematic interest that they contain. Here, thanks to Falletta and the folks in Buffalo, in this luminously played and recorded performance, we can savor them afresh. So what are you waiting for? Go for it.

- ClassicsToday

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. Act I: Ouvertüre - Auftritt des Jourdain 04:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Act I: Ouvertüre - Auftritt des Jourdain
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  2. 2 II. Menuett 01:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Menuett
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  3. 3 III. Der Fechtmeister 01:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Der Fechtmeister
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  4. 4 IV. Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider 05:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  5. 5 V. Das Menuett des Lully 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Das Menuett des Lully
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  6. 6 VI. Courante 02:49
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Courante
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  7. 7 VII. Auftritt des Cléonte 04:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Auftritt des Cléonte
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  8. 8 VIII. Act II: Prelude (Intermezzo) 03:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Act II: Prelude (Intermezzo)
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  9. 9 IX. Das Diner: Tafelmusik und Tanz des Küchenjungen 10:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    IX. Das Diner: Tafelmusik und Tanz des Küchenjungen
    Duration
    10:39
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  10. 10 I. Prologue (Overture to the Prologue) 05:13
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Prologue (Overture to the Prologue)
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  11. 11 II. Duet: Ein Augenblick ist wenig, ein Blick is viel 03:54
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Duet: Ein Augenblick ist wenig, ein Blick is viel
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  12. 12 III. Waltz: Eine Störrische zu trösten 06:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Waltz: Eine Störrische zu trösten
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  13. 13 IV. Overture, "The Opera Overture" - Ein Schönes War 04:47
    Track
    13
    Title
    IV. Overture, "The Opera Overture" - Ein Schönes War
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  14. 14 V. Aria: Es gibt ein Reich 06:21
    Track
    14
    Title
    V. Aria: Es gibt ein Reich
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  15. 15 VI. Interlude 04:21
    Track
    15
    Title
    VI. Interlude
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  16. 16 VII. Finale: Gibt es kein Hinüber? 08:30
    Track
    16
    Title
    VII. Finale: Gibt es kein Hinüber?
    Duration
    08:30
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Ensemble
    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta