The idea of heroism plays a central role in Richard Strauss 's music: his view of the concept is closely entwined with Romanticism, and draws heavily on his literary antecedents, notably Goethe and Schiller. Today Donald Macleod examines some of the ways in which Strauss used and depicted heroism in his music.
Traum durch die Dammerung, Op 29 No 1 Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Enoch Arden Claude Rains (speaker), Glenn Gould (piano)
Ein Heldenleben Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner