Description
Richard Strauss - Don Quixote; Romance in F Major; Sonata in F Major - Jan Vogler, Louis Lortie, Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi / Sony Classical Hybrid Disc 2004 / SK 93100
UPC 5099709310027
Don Quixote, Op. 35 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss for cello, viola, and orchestra. Subtitled Phantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters (Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character), the work is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Strauss composed this work in Munich in 1897. The premiere took place in Cologne on 8 March 1898, with Friedrich Grützmacher as the cello soloist and Franz Wüllner as the conductor.
The score is 45 minutes long and is written in theme and variations form, with the solo cello representing Don Quixote, and the solo viola, tenor tuba, and bass clarinet depicting his squire Sancho Panza. The second variation depicts an episode where Don Quixote encounters a herd of sheep and perceives them as an approaching army. Strauss uses dissonant flutter-tonguing in the brass to emulate the bleating of the sheep, an early instance of this extended technique. Strauss later quoted this passage in his music for Le bourgeois gentilhomme, at the moment a servant announces the dish of "leg of mutton in the Italian style". Graham Phipps has examined the structure of the work in terms of Arnold Schoenberg's ideas of 'surface harmonic logic' and 'developing variation'.
| Label: | Sony Classical – SK 93100 |
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| Format: |
Hybrid, Album
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| Released: |
2004 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Modern |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Romance for cello & orchestra in F major, o.Op. 75 (TrV 118, AV 75) | 9:37 | |
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Don Quixote, fantastic variations for cello & orchestra, Op. 35 (TrV 184) |
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| 2 | Introduction | 5:48 | |
| 3 | Thema | 2:09 | |
| 4 | Variation 1 | 2:40 | |
| 5 | Variation 2 | 1:50 | |
| 6 | Variation 3 | 8:16 | |
| 7 | Variation 4 | 1:50 | |
| 8 | Variation 5 | 3:24 | |
| 9 | Variation 6 | 1:11 | |
| 10 | Variation 7 | 1:02 | |
| 11 | Variation 8 | 1:46 | |
| 12 | Variation 9 | 1:02 | |
| 13 | Variation 10 | 4:21 | |
| 14 | Finale. Sehr ruhig | 5:20 | |
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Sonata for cello & piano in F major, Op. 6 (TrV 115) |
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| 15 | 1. Allegro con moto | 8:24 | |
| 16 | 2. Andante ma non troppo | 6:39 | |
| 17 | 3. Finale. Allegro vivo | 8:18 |
- Art Direction, Design – Roland Demus
- Cello, Liner Notes – Jan Vogler
- Conductor – Fabio Luisi
- Edited By – Martin Nagorni
- Edited By, Mastered By, Producer – Andreas Neubronner
- Engineer [Balance] – Eberhard Hinz
- Engineer [Balance], Edited By, Producer – Stephan Schellmann
- Orchestra – Dresden Staatskapelle
- Photography – Uwe Arens (2)
- Piano – Louis Lortie (tracks: 15-17)
- Viola – Sebastian Herberg (tracks: 2-14)
- Violin – Kai Vogler
