Strauss: Macbeth - Dance of the Seven Veils - Metamorphosen

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 30, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STRAUSS, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Seattle Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Schwarz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2012
    • UPC
      747313121977
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8571219
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Macbeth, Op. 23, TrV 163

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    2. Salome, Op. 54, TrV 215: Dance of the Seven Veils

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    3. Metamorphosen, TrV 290

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz


The three works in this programme reflect different aspects of Strauss's compositional life. The tone-poem MacBeth, written between 1888 and 1891, offers a grippingly taut narrative. The Dance of the Seven Veils from the 1905 opera Salome is one of it's most exciting and intoxicating moments. Towards the end of his life, facing the ruin wrought by World War II, Strauss took inspiration from Goethe and wrote Metamorphosen, one of the most moving of all twentieth-century works.