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Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen, Songs For Soprano & Piano

Joan Rodgers, Jan Latham-Koenig & Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: AV2172

Release Date:  16 May 2011

Label:  Avie

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  822252217223

Genres:  Classical  

  • 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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Don Juan, Op. 20
      • 2. Four Songs from Op. 10 (1885) Die Zeitlose · The Saffron Crocus, Op.10, No. 7
      • 3. Allerseelen · All Soul’s Day, Op.10, No. 8
      • 4. Die Georgine · Georgine, Op.10, No. 4
      • 5. Die Verschwiegenen · Concealed, Op.10, No. 6
      • 6. Begegnung · Meeting o.Op.72
      • 7. Rote Rosen · Red Roses o.Op.76
      • 8. Die erwachte Rose · The Rose Awoken o.Op.66
      • 9. Morgen! · Tomorrow! Op.27, No. 4
      • 10. Metamorphosen (1945)