Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen & Songs for Soprano & Piano

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Joan Rodgers's singing...has bags of personality and that's the main thing...Tone-poem and elegy both start well, but have their problematic interpretative moments...The central sweep, though,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th May 2011
Catalogue No: AV2172
Label: Avie
Length: 63 minutes

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Strauss, R: Don Juan, Op. 20, for orchestra

Work length18:06

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Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

Strauss, R: Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10, TrV 141, for soprano and piano

Work length9:35

$4.00

$5.60

Joan Rodgers
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

VII. Die Zeitlose (The Saffron Crocus)

Track length1:47

$1.00

$1.40

VIII. Allerseelen (All Soul’s Day)

Track length3:07

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$1.40

IV. Die Georgine (Georgine)

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.40

VI. Die Verschwiegenen (Concealed)

Track length1:02

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$1.40

Strauss, R: Begegnung (Meeting), o.Op. 72, for soprano and piano

Work length1:40

$1.00

$1.40

Joan Rodgers
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

Strauss, R: Rote Rosen (Red Roses), o.Op. 76, for soprano and piano

Work length2:30

$1.00

$1.40

Joan Rodgers
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

Strauss, R: Die erwachte Rose (The Rose Awoken), o.Op. 66, for soprano and piano

Work length3:07

$1.00

$1.40

Joan Rodgers
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

Strauss, R: Morgen! (Tomorrow!), Op. 27, No. 4, for soprano and piano

Work length4:20

$1.00

$1.40

Joan Rodgers
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

Strauss, R: Metamorphosen

Work length23:58

Album only

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre Philharmoniqie de Strasbourg
Jan Latham-Koenig

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Jan Latham-Koenig was one of Avie’s flagship artists. As Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the unique coupling of Franck’s Symphony in D with extracts from Psyché (AV0003), and Ibert’s rare, early opera Persée et Andromède (AV0008). These recordings of Strauss’s Don Juan and Metamorphosen were Latham-Koenig’s valedictory recordings in Strasbourg, and illuminate his brilliant ability to shape phrases and extract orchestral colour – ideal for Strauss’s vividly pictorial tone poems. An equally accomplished pianist, Latham-Koenig completes the album by accompanying one of England’s leading vocal lights, soprano Joan Rodgers, in a selection of Strauss’s early Lieder.

Reviews

June 2011

Joan Rodgers's singing...has bags of personality and that's the main thing...Tone-poem and elegy both start well, but have their problematic interpretative moments...The central sweep, though, is clear and impressive, the Strasbourg strings remarkably fine.

July 2011

Don Juan has been played and recorded so often that it might seem impossibile to conjure the music into sounding as fresh as the day it was written. Yet it happens here, with a conductor-and-orchestra team that delivers sweeping panache, needlepoint precision, and vividly characterised solo playing (superb horns!). In the brooding, autumnal Metamorphosen, the quality of the Strasbourg string-playing is if anything higher.

June 2011

The account of Don Juan cannot be faulted: ideally paced, with a bold contribution from the horns and strings which are virile and rich. The tension in Metamorphosen, although not low, is a little inconsistent but reaches an impressively passionate climax with good, full-bodied recording. The conductor also provides highly sympathetic accompaniments for his soloist, Joan Rodgers.

11th September 2011

This lusciously rewarding programme opens with an admirably ardent, appropriately cocksure but always musically disciplined Don Juan, played with panache by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg...[Metamorphosen] is beautifully played, finely shaped and exquisitely internally balanced.

Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen & Songs for Soprano & Piano

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