Strauss, Richard (1864 - 1949)

[LMcD]

We don't seem to have a thread dedicated to Richard Strauss (well, if there is I can't find it )
Anyway, I just wanted to mention that, either by accident or design, his Piano Quartet featured in today's Lunchtime Concert and one of his Piano Trios is now being broadcast in the post-concert slot.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We don't seem to have a thread dedicated to Richard Strauss (well, if there is I can't find it )

An astonishing omission, LMcD - one that the Forum will be grateful for your rectifying . (I've "tweaked" your title so that it fits in with the alphabetical ordering in the "Composers" Forum Index.

[gradus]

We don't seem to have a thread dedicated to Richard Strauss (well, if there is I can't find it )
Anyway, I just wanted to mention that, either by accident or design, his Piano Quartet featured in today's Lunchtime Concert and one of his Piano Trios is now being broadcast in the post-concert slot.

Never heard the Strauss before - what a cracker!

[LMcD]

Never heard the Strauss before - what a cracker!

Which one's the cracker? I quite enjoyed the Piano Quartet, and found myself visualising - if that's the right word - certain passages being played by orchestral forces; there was definitely the odd 'Owl Glass' moment. Overall, I felt that its length possibly wasn't totally justified by its content.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not a composer I think of often.

[gradus]

It was the piano quartet that I enjoyed so much.

[gurnemanz]

I started to love the songs about 50 years ago as a student, with Lisa della Casa in Four Last. I soon got a Hilde Gueden LP with Friedrich Gulda which I enjoyed (this one). I was restricted to cheap labels, couldn't afford opera sets and remember borrowing Elektra from the public library. I have gone on ever since gradually to get to know his Lied output via lots of fine recordings, eg great value Fischer-Dieskau box, Jonas Kaufmann on Harmonia Mundi. I recently acquired an excellent complete edition masterminded by Brigitte Fassbaender. Also the ongoing Hyperion series. Many good recordings of orchestral songs, including a very worthwhile complete edition on Nightingale.

I like a quite a lot of his output including Salome and very late items like the Oboe Concerto and the very moving Metamorphosen.

[Belgrove]

Strauss’ remarkable Die Frau Ohne Schatten is being broadcast on Opera on 3 at 18.30 tomorrow. Arguably his greatest operatic score (but don’t try to follow the plot).

[Ein Heldenleben]

The last half hour of Die Frau - the greatest music written for the stage this century ?

[Bryn]

The last half hour of Die Frau - the greatest music written for the stage this century ?

"this century"? The work was premiered a little over a century ago.

[ahinton]

"this century"? The work was premiered a little over a century ago.

Perhaps member Heldenleben meant "in the past century"...

[LMcD]

Perhaps member Heldenleben meant "in the past century"...

Perhaps he meant 'in the last 100 years'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Perhaps he meant 'in the last 100 years'

That would still be wrong - the premiere was on 10th October 1919 (and the work was "written" before then, of course).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It reminds me of a concert programme of 20th Century French choral music, including Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine (1865)

[Serial_Apologist]

Strauss’ remarkable Die Frau Ohne Schatten is being broadcast on Opera on 3 at 18.30 tomorrow. Arguably his greatest operatic score (but don’t try to follow the plot).

Once described to me by my father as "The most difficult to understand music I have ever listened to"; to which I said, "What?? After all the stuff I've played to you???" "Yes", he insisted, straightfaced.