Strauss, Richard (1864 - 1949)

[Tevot]

Hello there,

Elektra has always impressed - Don Juan was an early favourite as a child. And where would the Moon Landings be without Zarathustra ;-)

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My favourite Strauss opera: Salome. The Solti recording is highly praised, but I prefer the VPO/Karajan - an EMI recording, made by Decca!!

[vinteuil]

My favourite Strauss opera: Salome. The Solti recording is highly praised, but I prefer the VPO/Karajan - an EMI recording, made by Decca!!

... have you tried Strauss's version using the original French of Wilde? Well worth the experience -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Strauss-Salomé/dp/B00004VG0R

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[Ein Heldenleben]

Perhaps he meant 'in the last 100 years'

No I meant last century ! After I wrote that I was expecting someone to say Rite of Spring.
In the days of cheques I was constantly getting the first 3 months worth returned with the wrong year on....but the wrong century that’s a first...
Sorry to correct
“ The greatest half hour of music written for the stage in the 20th and 21st centuries ? (so far)
(With the exception of TROS)

[BBMmk2]

My favourite Strauss opera: Salome. The Solti recording is highly praised, but I prefer the VPO/Karajan - an EMI recording, made by Decca!!

That sounds very odd!

I do have a penchant for Richard Strauss, especially Eine Alpeine Symphonie and those Waltz Sequences from Der Rosenkavalier, the opera I rather like.

[ahinton]

Perhaps he meant 'in the last 100 years'

...which is what I'd meant to say!...

[gradus]

Maybe make a diary note for the ROH Elektra 18 June 2020, coming to a cinema near you.

[Petrushka]

Interesting though it is, it's all way off topic so any chance that the copyright posts can be hived off to another thread?

(Then delete this post)

[Ein Heldenleben]

You’re right It is off topic and it has also distracted me from mentioning the excellent Die Frau Ohne Schatten relay on Opera on 3 last night - I have been meaning to all day...

[ahinton]

You’re right It is off topic and it has also distracted me from mentioning the excellent Die Frau Ohne Schatten relay on Opera on 3 last night - I have been meaning to all day...

It is indeed largely off-topic and I accordingly offer all due apologies for mentioning it in the first place, although it certainly isn't off-topic for the composer's Estate right now. Die Frau ohne Schatten strikes me as the one major exception to the composer's biographer Norman del Mar's view that Strauss was rarely at his absolute best between the two wars (and I think that del Mar himself regarded it similarly).

[Ein Heldenleben]

No need to apologise ..we are all guilty . I think DFOS is his best opera ( with Ariadne a close second ) . It was a terrific performance last night from Vienna State Opera though at one stage I was listening whilst watching that interview with subtitles on...

[gurnemanz]

Back to Strauss R. Two random facts I enjoy:

He died the year I was born.

His father played horn at the premiere of Tristan and Isolde. When he first saw his part in the score, he commented: "Das kann kein Mensch blasen!". Must have tripped off the tongue said with a Bavarian twang. Literally "No human being can blow that!"

[ahinton]

No need to apologise ..we are all guilty . I think DFOS is his best opera ( with Ariadne a close second ) . It was a terrific performance last night from Vienna State Opera though at one stage I was listening whilst watching that interview with subtitles on...

Well, for me, that accolade has to go to Salome but, of his later stage works, DFOS and the last one Capriccio figure highly...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting though it is, it's all way off topic so any chance that the copyright posts can be hived off to another thread?

Julie Donne - 32 posts now moved to the discrete Thread:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?20988-Copyrights-and-Wrongs

(I'm just waiting for someone to start a Thread on William Balfe now, so we can have a discussion about Public Schools!)

(Then delete this post)

Except that this Post would then look even more peculiar than it already does!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Die Frau ohne Schatten strikes me as the one major exception to the composer's biographer Norman del Mar's view that Strauss was rarely at his absolute best between the two wars (and I think that del Mar himself regarded it similarly).

You can sneak it so that it fits into the rule/"view" - it was written during the First World War, so not "between"

I agree - it's one of his finest achievements.