Richard Strauss: Symphony, Op. 12; Concert Overture in C minor

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the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie produces a huge and corpulent sound in a recording which seems barely able to contain the grandiose spirit of the music...The opulent, sweeping strings...pay ample... — MusicWeb International, February 2020 More…

Release Date: 29th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: 555290-2
Label: CPO
Length: 56 minutes

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Strauss, R: Concert Overture in C Minor, TrV 125

Work length12:17

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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Hermann Bäumer

Strauss, R: Symphony No. 2, Op. 12

Work length44:01

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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Hermann Bäumer

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

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II. Scherzo. Presto

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III. Andante cantabile

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IV. Finale. Allegro assai, molto appassionato

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During the summer of 1883 Richard Strauss composed two large-format orchestral works in traditional genres, the lengthy Concert Overture in C minor and the Symphony in F minor op. 12, both of them also with the same instruments. The overture is anything but a secondary effort; it also cannot be understood as a simple »work of his youth.« Although the key and the opening stance of the overture clearly point to Beethovens Coriolanus Overture, the subliminal irritations, frictions, surprises, and saliencies already present here become even much more apparent in the symphony. As in the overture, so too in the symphony: the composer abstains from any sort of allusions to content, and even more strikingly he does not include a dedication, even though the work was immediately published. And the finale pursues an unusual course, not with a breakthrough but over a festive path leading to a hymnic theme followed by an absolutely wild conclusion.

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February 2020

the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie produces a huge and corpulent sound in a recording which seems barely able to contain the grandiose spirit of the music...The opulent, sweeping strings...pay ample justice to Strauss’s eloquent expression of deep contentment.

Richard Strauss: Symphony, Op. 12; Concert Overture in C minor

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