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Strauss: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181
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Strauss: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181

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Details

Composer
ARDEN STRAUSS
Artist
Fischer-Dieskau, Oppitz
Format
CD
Label
Haenssler Classic
Released
Aug 04, 2017
Catalog #
HC16048
UPC
881488160482

About

At the time he wrote Enoch Arden, Strauss was known primarily as a composer of tone poems, having made a name for himself with works such as Macbeth, Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The brilliantly orchestrated symphonic work From Italy was written at about the same time as Enoch Arden. It took Strauss a while to develop a reputation as an operatic composer: his opera Guntram was a critical failure. Of his 16 operas, Salome was the first to achieve any kind of fame, albeit of a rather scandalous and even infamous nature. Pianists have often deplored the fact that the gifted painter of orchestra colour wrote so little music for their instrument. Apart from the early Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 5, the Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3, the Funf Stimmungsbilder, Op. 9, and Theme, 15 Improvisations and Fugue, there are only the highly demanding piano accompaniments for the lieder and, of course, the piano part in Enoch Arden. Despite its rarity, the 50-minute work in two parts has remained more or less at the fringes of mainstream repertoire. Yet no less than the eccentric Canadian musician and Bach specialist Glenn Gould recorded it, although it ''clearly contains some of the most sentimentally unbearable music that Strauss ever wrote''.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 6 Lieder, Op. 17, TrV 149: No. 2. Serenade (Standchen) (arr. W. Gieseking for piano) 03:06
    Track
    1
    Title
    6 Lieder, Op. 17, TrV 149: No. 2. Serenade (Standchen) (arr. W. Gieseking for piano)
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Gerhard Oppitz
  2. 2 5 Lieder, Op. 15, TrV 148: No. 5. Heimkehr (arr. W. Gieseking for piano) 03:09
    Track
    2
    Title
    5 Lieder, Op. 15, TrV 148: No. 5. Heimkehr (arr. W. Gieseking for piano)
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Gerhard Oppitz
  3. 3 No. 1. Freundliche Vision 03:28
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. Freundliche Vision
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Gerhard Oppitz
  4. 4 No. 4. Winterweihe 03:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Winterweihe
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Gerhard Oppitz
  5. 5 5 Kleine Lieder, Op. 69, TrV 237: No. 5. Schlechtes Wetter (arr. W. Gieseking for piano) 02:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    5 Kleine Lieder, Op. 69, TrV 237: No. 5. Schlechtes Wetter (arr. W. Gieseking for piano)
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Gerhard Oppitz
  6. 6 Part I. — 29:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    Part I. —
    Duration
    29:52
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerhard Oppitz
  7. 7 Part II. — 20:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    Part II. —
    Duration
    20:08
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerhard Oppitz