Richard Strauss – Burleske/Ein Heldenleben

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Richard Strauss
Release Date: 07-09-2018
PTC: 5186617
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Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) - Burleske

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) - Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) (1899)

3) "Des Helden Widersacher" (The Hero's Adversaries) 3:14
4) "Des Helden Gefährtin" (The Hero's Companion) 12:35
5) "Des Helden Walstatt" (The Hero at Battle) 6:49
6) "Des Helden Friedenswerke" (The Hero's Works of Peace) 6:08
7) "Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung" (The Hero's Retirement from this World and Completion) 11:49
Total Tracks 7
Total Duration 01hr 04min

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HEROISM AND IRONY ENTWINED

While starting his career adhering to Brahms’ “absolute” or “formalist” compositional approach, Richard Strauss rapidly turned into a staunch supporter of Wagner’s Zukunftsmusik, writing a series of iconoclast symphonic poems full of metaphysical allusions. This album features both sides of Strauss’s musical persona with the Burleske in D minor as well as Ein Heldenleben. While the former is a playful, miniature quasi concerto for piano and orchestra, the latter epitomises Strauss’s symphonic style: majestic, virtuosically orchestrated, full of grand ideas, but never without irony. In that respect, Ein Heldenleben has more in common with Burleske than one would expect. Strauss’ arguably satirical self-identification with the hero of his symphonic poem is underlined by recurrent self-quotations from previous compositions. The central role of the solo violin makes it another solo concerto in disguise, albeit less overtly than Burleske.
These two remarkable pieces are performed by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and their chief conductor Marc Albrecht, with Denis Kozhukhin delivering the solo piano part in Burleske. All have an impressive track record at PENTATONE. Albrecht and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra have released acclaimed albums such as Mahler Song Cycles with Alice Coote (2017) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Elizabeth Watts (2015). Kozhukhin has recorded piano concertos by Ravel and Gershwin (2018) as well as Tchaikovsky and Grieg (2016), and has been extensively praised for his Brahms Ballads & Fantasies solo album (2017).