Naxos
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sextet from Capriccio
$19.99
Details
- Composer
- STRAUSS, RICHARD
- Artist
- Schwarz
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Oct 30, 2012
- Catalog #
- 8571218
- UPC
- 747313121878
About
Autobiographical in content, Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben is one of a series of tone-poems, including, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Naxos 8.571215), in which he explored the utmost limits of extra-musical content in this form. The hero passes through love and adversity, confrontation, triumph in battle and fulfilment in a single, powerfully descriptive symphonic span. Gerard Schwarz's Ein Heldenleben has been acclaimed as "exciting and inspired" (Gramophone). The opera Capriccio is a romantic struggle to choose between words and music which opens with a gloriously bitter-sweet string sextet.
Tracklist 3 tracks
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1 Der Held (The Hero) - Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) - Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero's Companion) - 21:42
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Der Held (The Hero) - Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) - Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero's Companion) -
- Duration
- 21:42
- Composer
- Richard Strauss
- Ensemble
- Seattle Symphony
- Conductor
- Gerard Schwarz
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2 Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field of Battle) - Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero's Works of Peace) - Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (The Hero's Retreat from the World and Fulfilment) 22:34
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field of Battle) - Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero's Works of Peace) - Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (The Hero's Retreat from the World and Fulfilment)
- Duration
- 22:34
- Composer
- Richard Strauss
- Ensemble
- Seattle Symphony
- Conductor
- Gerard Schwarz
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3 Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet, TrV 279a (version for string orchestra) 13:22
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet, TrV 279a (version for string orchestra)
- Duration
- 13:22
- Composer
- Richard Strauss
- Ensemble
- Seattle Symphony
- Conductor
- Gerard Schwarz