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Composer of the Week: Strauss

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With Donald Macleod.
One of the most fascinating paradoxes of Richard Strauss is that he was blessed with a musical language of immense popular appeal; yet one would need to look hard to find a composer who was less motivated byfeelings of kinship towards his fellow man. Today Donald Macleod investigates how these characteristics manifest themselves in Strauss's music.
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Love Scene (Feuersnot)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductorThomas
Beecham Kramerspiegel (excerpt)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), JorgDemus (piano) Salome (excerpt)
Orchestra of Deutsch Oper, Berlin, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Conductorthomas:
Beecham Kramerspiegel
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conductor:
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Salome:
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Herod:
Horst Hiestermann (tenor)
Herod'swife:
Leonie Rysanek (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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