Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Tod und Verklärung

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Nagano’s Heldenleben has a similar focus on the intimate, a reluctance towards grandstanding and an impressive sense of coherence, but the results feel more satisfying in this more overtly personal... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

Release Date: 1st Dec 2017
Catalogue No: B108092
Label: Farao
Length: 70 minutes

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Strauss, R: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

Work length44:51

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Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano
Recorded: 15-20 February 2016
Recording Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden

Der Held (The Hero)

Track length4:11

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Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies)

Track length3:13

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Des Helden Gefährtin (The Hero's Companion)

Track length7:05

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Mäßig langsam

Track length5:46

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Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field of Battle)

Track length1:37

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Festes Zeitmaß (sehr lebhaft)

Track length5:46

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Mit großem Schwung und Begeisterung

Track length2:19

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Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero's Works of Peace)

Track length7:54

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Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung (The Hero's Withdrawal from the World)

Track length2:12

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Langsam

Track length4:48

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Strauss, R: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

Work length25:46

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Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano
Recorded: 9-11 June 2016
Recording Venue: Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden

Largo

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Allegro molto agitato

Track length3:55

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Meno mosso, ma sempre alla breve

Track length5:07

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A tempo primo

Track length3:47

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Moderato

Track length7:51

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This is the second recording of the Strauss trilogy with Sweden’s national orchestra under the baton of its Principal Guest Conductor Kent Nagano. As the long-time General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, Kent Nagano possesses a deep understanding of the music of Richard Strauss, the Munich Strauss tradition, and authentic sources stemming from the Strauss family. What is less well known is that the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra can also lay claim to an impressive Strauss tradition. As early as its very first concert season in 1905/06, the orchestra performed Don Juan. Death and Transfiguration, conducted by Wilhelm Stenhammar, was added to the repertoire in 1912, and Ein Heldenleben formed part of the orchestra’s programmes in the 1970s. In this new production of one of the most often-recorded orchestral works, Kent Nagano has chosen what is for him a characteristic approach: The life path of the hero Richard Strauss is not presented in a superficial and obvious way, reduced to purely illustrative programme music that owes its effects to the overwhelming power of an enormous orchestral apparatus. Instead, Nagano and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra seek out the nuances, the compositional and tonal details – and reveal the brokenness experienced by the hero, the inner emotions, perceptions, and self-doubt found beneath the surface of the score, which often tends to be interpreted one-dimensionally. The great violin solo that is a portrayal of Strauss’s wife Pauline is usually performed by the first concertmasters of the major orchestras. But here Sara Trobäck, First Concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, offers an unexpectedly different view of 'The Hero’s Companion'. When we hear the final phase of the life path traversed by Strauss’s 'hero', Nagano’s interpretation reveals to us the idealized late Romantic idiom in which the 34-year-old composer cast his two main characters.This reading ties in perfectly with the tone poem Death and Transfiguration, in which Richard Strauss and Kent Nagano tell us a very similar human story.

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January 2018

Nagano’s Heldenleben has a similar focus on the intimate, a reluctance towards grandstanding and an impressive sense of coherence, but the results feel more satisfying in this more overtly personal score. There’s no shortage of Schwung as we get under way…What is perhaps most memorable is the disarming gentleness and tenderness elsewhere that often comes through.

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