Strauss: Complete Music for Wind Instruments / Witt, Staatskapelle Berlin

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Label
Capriccio
Release Date
April 7, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Richard Strauss
    • PERFORMER
      Members Of Staatskapelle Berlin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 07, 2023
    • UPC
      845221054971
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      C5497
    • LABEL
      Capriccio
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    2. II. Romanze und Menuetto: Andante - Tempo di Menuetto

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    3. III. Finale: Molto Allegro

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    4. Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 7, TrV 106

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    5. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28, TrV 171 (arr. M. Pflaum for wind ensemble and percussion)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    6. I. Praeludium: Allegretto

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    7. II. Romanze: Andante

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    8. III. Gavotte: Allegro

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    9. IV. Introduction and Fugue: Andante cantabile - Allegro con brio

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    10. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    11. II. Andantino, sehr gemächlich (assai commodo)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    12. III. Menuet (Etwas lebhaft) (Un poco vivace)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt

    13. IV. Einleitlung (Andante) und Allegro

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: members Berlin Staatskapelle

      Conductor: Gregor Witt


As the Staatskapelle Berlin begins to look for its next music director (only the fourth since 1955!), this release finds the band’s own winds turning to Richard Strauss, who held the job some 110+ years ago. Together, they recorded their old chief conductors’ complete music for winds, including rarities like the Sonatinas “From an Invalid’s Workshop” and “The Happy Workshop” which Strauss dedicated to Mozart. Covering Strauss’ very early and very late creative output, the four pieces (plus the Eulenspiegel arrangement), give a fascinating insight into the development of Strauss, a horn player’s son.

REVIEW:

More Richard Strauss here in this comprehensive release which shows a range of different music for different combinations of wind. There are moments of lightness and drama here, the juxtaposition of which is highlighted for me in the 3rd movement of the Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments – light, playful flutes sit alongside the more demonstrative brass with its repeated downward motive which has a slightly sinister feel. Music that should be more widely heard.

-- Lark Reviews