Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite, Tod und Verklärung & Macbeth

[Tod und Verklärung] Without question and in any event this is the lushest reading of the tone poem I have ever heard. Shui so richly blends his orchestra that one could at first think the horns... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

Release Date: 29th May 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2342
Label: BIS
Length: 71 minutes

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Strauss, R: Macbeth, Op. 23

Work length20:53

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Lan Shui

Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier - Suite

Work length24:51

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Lan Shui

I. Con moto agitato

Track length4:38

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II. Un poco lento

Track length5:11

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III. Allegro molto - Tempo di valse

Track length6:45

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IV. Moderato molto sostenuto

Track length5:48

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V. Schneller Walzer

Track length2:29

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Strauss, R: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

Work length26:09

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Lan Shui

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Generally acknowledged as one of the great masters of the late-Romantic symphony orchestra, Richard Strauss understood like few others how to use the rich palette of instrumental colours to portray larger-than-life passions and emotions. He did so in a series of pioneering symphonic poems – often choosing as his subject extraordinary characters such as Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote. But before either of these, in his very first tone poem, he composed a portrayal of Macbeth, his ferociously ambitious wife and their downfall. It is with this rarely played work that Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra open their all-Strauss disc. Also included is another early tone poem, Tod und Verklärung, which Strauss started composing very shortly after Macbeth, and which was actually premièred before that work. In his new work, Strauss didn’t make use of an existing character or story –instead he set out to depict the emotions of a man struggling against and finally giving in to death. These two works, which both end in death, frame a suite from one of the composer’s most light-hearted ventures –the opera Der Rosenkavalier, set in mid-eighteenth century courtly Vienna. Premièred in 1911, this sophisticated aristocratic comedy, proved a perennial favourite and towards the end of his life, Strauss gave his blessing to the Suite recorded here, which manages to include a fair selection of the opera’s best-loved moments.

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September/October 2020

[Tod und Verklärung] Without question and in any event this is the lushest reading of the tone poem I have ever heard. Shui so richly blends his orchestra that one could at first think the horns slightly buried, but any feeling of homogenization disappears as you turn up the volume to concert levels. This is one of the finest-sounding releases I have ever heard, and I am stunned by the world-class quality of the Singapore Symphony. More, please!

Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite, Tod und Verklärung & Macbeth

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