Special offer. Richard Strauss: Tone Poems Volume 5
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
The virtues of Weigle’s conducting and the paying of his orchestra have been clear in earlier instalments…The orchestral sound is plump[ and gratifying, and the players offer easy virtuosity...
Special offer. Richard Strauss: Tone Poems Volume 5
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
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The virtues of Weigle’s conducting and the paying of his orchestra have been clear in earlier instalments…The orchestral sound is plump[ and gratifying, and the players offer easy virtuosity...
About
Richard Strauss was not yet 25 when he confronted death in musical terms. However, Death and Transfiguration was not created, as often supposed, as a more or less autobiographical report following a severe illness, but as a pictorial attempt at portraying the final moments of human existence in musical. In From Italy, the twenty-year-old Strauss reflects on a trip to Italy in which he experienced at first hand the beauties of nature and the Roman ruins. Both works are now brought together as Part 5 of the Strauss cycle with Sebastian Weigle on Oehms Classics.
Contents and tracklist
Work length26:30
This work is only available as an album download.
Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24, TrV 158 (Live)
Track length26:30
This track is only available as an album download.
- Oper Frankfurt
- Sebastian Weigle
- Recorded: 25-26 June 2017
- Recording Venue: Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany
Awards and reviews
February 2018
The virtues of Weigle’s conducting and the paying of his orchestra have been clear in earlier instalments…The orchestral sound is plump[ and gratifying, and the players offer easy virtuosity and lyrical splendour, sounding thoroughly at home in a composer they often perform in the pit of the Frankfurt Opera. Weigle, the opera house’s music director, conducts both scores with a natural and compelling sense of pacing and symphonic coherence.
