Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sextet from Capriccio (2012)

Tracklist

01. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, TrV 190: Der Held
02. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, TrV 190: Des Helden Walstatt
03. Capriccio, Op. 85: String Sextet, TrV 279a

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.

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