at Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co. Ltd.)
RICHARD STRAUSS
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
(ninety players)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Love Scene (Feuersnot)
8.8 Symphonic Poem, Till Eulenspiegel
8.24 Songs with Orchestra
Morgen (Violin obbligato,
Paul Beard )
Wiegenlied Standchen
(ELISABETH SCHUMANN)
8.38 Wanderlust and Waltz Scene
(from the Opera, Intermezzo)
Nearly fifty years have passed since Strauss startled the complacency of the world of music with his tone poem ' Don Juan '. Despite the lesson of Wagner, conservative critics, professional musicians, and plain men attacked Strauss for being an extremist and a cacophonist, and some even linked his name with Ibsen and Maeterlinck because of the corruptness and indecency alleged to be found in his music ! Almost up to the War he was largely considered something of an enfant terrible.
The style and idiom of his music derive from Brahms, Liszt, and Wagner. He began as a loyal adherent of classical tradition, with Brahms as the figure-head. Apart from his great constructive skill, power of thematic development, and brilliant orchestral virtuosity, the eloquence and lyrical beauty of so many of his themes and the rhythmic vitality of the music as a whole are features that have an immediate and vivid appeal.
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