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Ein Heldenleben and the Four Last Songs make a slightly unusual coupling, though these works are, in fact, contrasting portraits of Strauss's own marriage. Heldenleben mockingly pits thoughts of ...

As principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2006, Bernard Haitink has featured more prominently on the orchestra's own CD label than anyone else, and the results have generally been ...

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I've been swotting up on Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben in advance of Friday night's Prom by the Hallé and conductor Sir Mark Elder, for which I'm a guest TV commentator. The title means "a hero's ...

Last night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall to play two works—both tone poems, both written in the 1890s, both about forty-five minutes long, and both depicting heroes. The first ...

(Ein) Heldenleben, '(A) Hero's Life' Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, Violin Richard Strauss, Composer Don Juan Richard Strauss, Composer Valery ...

(Ein) Heldenleben, '(A) Hero's Life' Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Strauss, Composer (4) Letzte Lieder, '(4) Last Songs' Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor ...

Ein Heldenleben means ‘A Hero’s Life’, and Richard Strauss was definitely having a bit of a laugh at the expense of his critics when he painted this huge, absurdly entertaining self-portrait of the ...

At one time, visitors who rang the bell at the door of Zöppritzstrasse No. 46 in the little Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen heard a recorded voice boom through a speaking tube: “Dr. Strauss is ...

These stirring performances come from concerts in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and testify to the rapport the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons has established with the CBSO. Passion, glowing sonority ...