Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sextet from Capriccio

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 30, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STRAUSS, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Seattle Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Schwarz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2012
    • UPC
      747313121878
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8571218
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Der Held (The Hero) - Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) - Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero's Companion) -

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    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)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    3. Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet, TrV 279a (version for string orchestra)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz


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.