Artist: James Ehnes, Daniel Müller-Schott, Christopher Moore, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Title: Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto / Don Quixote
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac 24bits - 48.0kHz
Total Time: 01:12:55
Total Size: 725 mb

Tracklist

01. R. Strauss: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.8, Trv 110-1. Allegro (Live)
02. R. Strauss: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.8, Trv 110-2. Lento ma non troppo (Live)
03. R. Strauss: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.8, Trv 110-3. Rondo: Presto (Live)
04. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-1. Introduction: Don Quixote Loses His Sanity after Reading Novels about Knights, and Decides to Become a Knight-Errant (Live)
05. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-2. Theme: Don Quixote, Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance (Live)
06. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-3. Sancho Panza (Live)
07. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-4. Variation I: Adventure at the Windmills (Live)
08. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-5. Variation II: Kriegerisch (Live)
09. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-6. Variation III: Dialogue between Knight and Squire (Live)
10. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-7. Variation IV: Unhappy Adventure with a Procession of Pilgrims (Live)
11. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-8. Variation V: The Knight’s Vigil (Live)
12. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-9. Variation VI: Meeting with Dulcinea (Live)
13. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-10. Variation VII: The Ride through the Air (Live)
14. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-11. Variation VIII: The Unhappy Voyage in the Enchanted Boat (Live)
15. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-12. Variation IX: Battle with the Magicians (Live)
16. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-13. Variation X: Duel with the Knight of the Bright Moon (Live)
17. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, TrV 184-14. Finale: Coming to His Senses Again (Live)


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 Quixoteis 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 operasDer Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten andSalome). 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’.