Joan Rodgers, Jan Latham-Koenig & Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Description
Jan Latham-Koenig brings out all the richness of Strauss' orchestral scoring and vocal writing in an album of tone poems and lieder.
Jan Latham-Koenig was one of Avie's flagship artists. As Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the unique coupling of Franck's Symphony in D with extracts from Psyché (AV 0003), and Ibert's rare, early opera Persée et Andromède (AV 0008). These recordings of Strauss' Don Juan and Metamorphosen were Latham-Koenig's valedictory recordings in Strasbourg, and illuminate his brilliant ability to shape phrases and extract orchestral colour – ideal for Strauss' vividly pictorial tone poems. An equally accomplished pianist, Latham-Koenig completes the album by accompanying one of England's leading vocal lights, soprano Joan Rodgers, in a selection of Strauss' early Lieder.
Critical acclaim:
"The unique coupling and the refinement of sound and performance give the disc an obvious place." - Gramophone (on Franck Symphony, Psyché, AV0003)
"Jan Latham-Koenig and the Strasbourg Philharmonic bring out Ibert's rich scoring to the full." – Gramophone, Editor's Choice (on Ibert's Persée et Andromède, AV0008)
Personnel: Joan Rodgers (soprano), Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor/piano), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Tracklisting
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen; John Churchwell
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Christopher Tyler Nickel, Sarah Jackson
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Bruce Wolosoff
Charles Owen
Proteus Ensemble; Stephen Shellard
Benjamin Hochman
Yonghuan Zhong
Makoto Ozone, Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Tadaaki Otaka
Szymon Nehring
The Death of Colonel Boles Ensemble, Camarada, Sylvia Turner, Commotio, Sarah Fryer, Hampshire Yout
Elena Ballario & Sergio Patria
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen; John Churchwell
Harvey Brough
Brother Tree Sound
