Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto & Don Quixote

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Release Date: 31st May 2019
Catalogue No: ABC4817471
Label: ABC Classics
Length: 72 minutes

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Strauss, R: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8

Work length30:46

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James Ehnes (violin)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: 2016-08-13

1. Allegro

Track length15:36

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2. Lento ma non troppo

Track length6:40

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3. Rondo: Presto

Track length8:30

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Strauss, R: Don Quixote, Op. 35

Work length42:02

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Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Christopher Moore (viola)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded: 2017-06-26

1. Introduction: Don Quixote Loses His Sanity after Reading Novels about Knights, and Decides to Become a Knight-Errant

Track length6:06

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2. Theme: Don Quixote, Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance

Track length1:04

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3. Sancho Panza

Track length1:05

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4. Variation I: Adventure at the Windmills

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5. Variation II: Kriegerisch

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6. Variation III: Dialogue between Knight and Squire

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7. Variation IV: Unhappy Adventure with a Procession of Pilgrims

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8. Variation V: The Knight’s Vigil

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9. Variation VI: Meeting with Dulcinea

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10. Variation VII: The Ride through the Air

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11. Variation VIII: The Unhappy Voyage in the Enchanted Boat

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12. Variation IX: Battle with the Magicians

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13. Variation X: Duel with the Knight of the Bright Moon

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14. Finale: Coming to His Senses Again

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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis continue their acclaimed survey of the orchestral music of Richard Strauss, with this latest volume featuring three world-class soloists James Ehnes, Daniel Müller-Schott and Christopher Moore performing two of his finest early works: the Violin Concerto, and the tone poem Don Quixote. Performed here by dual Grammy Award-winning Canadian violinist James Ehnes, Strauss's Violin Concerto is a beautiful and inventive work, remarkably mature considering Strauss wrote it when he was still a teenager. Strangely seldom performed today, it is full of melody and of virtuoso fireworks, very much of its Romantic time but hinting at the recent Classical masters Beethoven and Mozart. Don Quixote is inspired by Cervantes's iconic novel, and Strauss demonstrates every bit of his flair for the dramatic (which would be fully realised in his great operas Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome). With Daniel Müller-Schott's cello representing the famous man of La Mancha, and Christopher Moore's viola cast as his trusty sidekick Sancho Panza, Strauss takes us on an incredible journey into the mind of this deluded nobleman, and across the rustic landscape of the Don's native Spain. The MSO's Strauss series was launched in 2014 with a major European tour including the BBC Proms and the Concertgebouw, and has so far included Four Last Songs with Erin Wall, Ein Heldenleben, Four Symphonic Interludes, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and An Alpine Symphony. The recordings have won significant acclaim from the international press, with BBC Music Magazine describing Also sprach Zarathustra as 'a benchmark recording'.

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