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Mar 15, 2022 · It’s one of the great feats of musical distillation and storytelling: Richard Strauss turning Cervantes’s vast two-part novel Don Quixote into a 40‑minute tone poem, or, put more accurately, a set of ‘fantastical variations on a theme of knightly character’.
- Hugo Shirley
1941 – Oswald Uhl (cello), Philipp Haas (viola), Richard Strauss (conductor), Bavarian State Orchestra – Deutsche Grammophon (Strauss conducts Strauss, released in 2014) 1941 – Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (viola), Fritz Reiner (conductor), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Columbia
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8. Sound Quality: 3. The general consensus during Richard Strauss’ conducting heyday was that he was a more effective and inspired podium figure in front of an audience than when facing a studio microphone. A newly discovered “live” Don Quixote from a 1936 London concert seems to bear this out.
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Strauss went on to write a series of increasingly ambitious tone poems: Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895), Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), Don Quixote (1897), Ein Heldenleben (1898), Symphonia Domestica (1903) and An Alpine Symphony (1911–1915). One commentator has observed of these works that "no ...
