Ticciati Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Symphony 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 Verklärungis 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 is released to coincide with Ticciati's fourth season as Music Director of the DSO. Album Tracks 1. Don Juan, Op. 20 2. Sechs Lieder, Op. 68 3. Tod Und Verklärung, Op. 24

Here loving service is done to a composer who is perhaps Sweden's most important symphonist and certainly it's most popular one. This is what FonoForum wrote of Vol. 2 of our edition of symphonic works by Hugo Alfvén, who numbers among the most productive and most versatile Swedish cultural personalities. Alfvén's Symphony No. 2 brought him a success that he termed his definitive artistic breakthrough. A second performance was held during the same year, and it was not long before it was also being presented in foreign countries. This work became his most popular symphony and the first of his compositions to appear in print (1900). At the time national Romantic tones had long dominated music by Swedish composers, while Alfvén adopted a taste that was more Continental - a fact that reviewers registered with astonishment. His Swedish Rhapsody No. 3, a composition featuring impressive work with motifs from Swedish folk music, rounds off this album. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in D major~Moderato 2. Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in D major~Andante 3. Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in D major~Allegro 4. Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in D major~Preludio. Adagio 5. Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in D major~Fuga. Allegro energico 6. Svensk Rhapsodi No. 3 Op. 47~Andante 7. Svensk Rhapsodi No. 3 Op. 47~Allegro violento 8. Svensk Rhapsodi No. 3 Op. 47~Allegro violento - alternative ending

Album Tracks 1. 1. Allegro Moderato 2. 2. Lento 3. 3. Prestissimo 4. 1. Sostenuto 5. 2. Allegro Assai 6. 3. Lento 7. 4. Allegro Moderato