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Strauss in 1888, the year he composed Don Juan. Excerpt from a 1992 recording by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Dmitri Kitayenko. Don Juan, Op. 20, is a tone poem in E major for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888.
The work chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero, prankster Till Eulenspiegel, who is represented by two themes. The first, played by the horn, is a lilting melody that reaches a peak, falls downward, and ends in three long, loud notes, each progressively lower.
Richard Strauss Conducts Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Richard Strauss. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at
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Till Eulenspiegel, Strauss’s mischievous prankster, is a character from fourteenth century traditional German folk legends. Concerned with orchestral detail Honeck in the notes explains that in the trial scene he has heightened the pitch of the D clarinet to make it more audible.
Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53, is a tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss. The work is a musical reflection of the secure domestic life so valued by the composer himself and, as such, harmoniously conveys daily events and family life.
Lorin Maazel leads the Viennese in a scorching Don Juan and an elegant Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Dohnanyi, also in Vienna, gives stylish but unsentimental (like Strauss himself!) readings of Death and Transfiguration and Metamorphosen, the latter refreshingly transparent and unsticky.
