When, in 1889, Strauss assumed his office as Grand Ducal Saxon Kapellmeister, he wrote: “To Weimar, where Liszt worked for so long…” Kirill Karabits leads the Staatskapelle Weimar through Strauss’ three early tone poems composed during that time. Strauss himself described these works as “a completely new path”.
Weimar was not only the metropolis of the classical era that acquired world fame thanks to Goethe and Schiller. Weimar was also the domain of great musicians: Franz Liszt served as Kapellmeister in the city and invented the genre of the symphonic poem. Richard Strauss followed in his footsteps when he, as Kapellmeister from 1889 until 1894, presented his own first symphonic poems, "Macbeth" and "Don Juan", at the helm of the Weimar court orchestra. Kirill Karabits, Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater since 2016, now presents, alongside today's Weimar Staatskapelle, not only these two major works of his great predecessor, but also "Tod und Verklärung", which Strauss had completed in Weimar. The contemporaneous Festmarsch in C major, TrV157 - Strauss' anniversary gift to "Die Wilde Gung'l", the Munich orchestra he had conducted in his youth – is a true rarity, rounding off this recording.
Richard Strauss:
Macbeth – Tondichtung nach Shakespeare für Orchester op. 23 (TrV 163)
Don Juan – Tondichtung für Orchester op. 20 (TrV 156)
Tod und Verklärung – Tondichtung für Orchester op. 24 (TrV 158)
Festmarsch in C-Dur für Orchester (TrV 157)
Staatskapelle Weimar & Kirill Karabits
recording: December 19 - 21, 2017
recording location: Weimarhalle, Weimar
recording producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
engineer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Aki Matusch
technician: Daniel Fuchs
editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer
recording format: pcm, 96kHz, 24 bit
music publisher: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan & Macbeth: C. F. PETERS Leipzig London New York
art direction and design: AB-Design, Detmold
audite 97.755
EAN 4022143977557
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