Composer: Richard Strauss
Performer: Louise Alder
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD640
Release: 2020
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Don Juan, Op. 20
Sechs Lieder, Op. 68
02. I. An die Nacht
03. II. Ich wollt’ ein Sträusslein binden
04. III. Säus’le, liebe Myrte!
05. IV. Als mir dein Lied erklang!
06. V. Amor
07. VI. Lied der Frauen
08. Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
For his fifth recording with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati conducts a captivating programme of Richard Strauss including Tod und Verklärung and Don Juan.
The scandalous story of the insatiable Don Juan forms the inspiration for a tone poem which is rich in imagination and dramatic flourishes.
Tod und Verklärung is further testament to Strauss’s vivid imagination; his exploration of the mystery of death and what may follow was written when he was only twenty-five.
Ticciati is a consummate Straussian, as his triumphant Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne demonstrated, and his complete control of phrase shape and dynamics delivers performances of tremendous power and lucidity.
Soprano Louise Alder joins Ticciati and the DSO to record what she describes as ‘a fiendish but beloved cycle of Strauss songs’: Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, affectionately known as the Brentano Lieder.
The recording will be released to coincide with Ticciati’s fourth season as Music Director of the DSO.