Trio Arnold - Strauss: Quatuor pour piano et Cordes - Metamorphoses pour septuor a cordes (Live) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A radically systematic logic stunningly manifested itself quite early in the music of Richard Strauss. He avoided the instrumental genres, was attracted to the tone poem right from the very start, and worked toward the goal of making the opera his central focus. And yet his beginnings lay in chamber music, a fact demonstrated on this with two examples in new recordings. The Piano Trio No. 2 is lengthier than it's predecessor and very ambitious both in it's tonal register and execution. The formal norms - sonata form, song form, scherzo, and then another sonata movement - are upheld with completeness and elegance. The piano trio had a long line of tradition going back to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, but the composer who set standards in the middle of the nineteenth century is particularly clearly recognizable here in a model function Mendelssohn. Only about seven years passed between this trio and Strauss's only Piano Quartet, but in 1885 too he was still a very young composer. The quartet displays impressive advances in technique; now Strauss apparently could draw on all the compositional resources then available, and the higher virtuosic demands on the instrumentalists are also quite evident. Strauss attracted the greatest attention with his large- op. 13 lasting almost forty minutes, a work that even brought him a prize from the Berliner Tonkünstlerverein.

Transmutation Inchto change or alter in form, appearance, or nature, and especially to a higher form.Inch Joanna Estelle embodies this definition in her deeply personal and profound compositions on TRANSMUTATION, a communal effort featuring various talented performers coming together to transmute their message to you. With music as vulnerable and exposed as the stories it tells, TRANSMUTATION is a reflection on the patterns of life through periods of both rain and shine, and the constants that keep us grounded through the changes that they bring. Estelle's message is clear to allow for change is to allow for healing

Strauss / Aldeburgh Strings / Daunert - Strauss Metamorphosen Serenade 7 & Symphony [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/23/2017