Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen & Symphony for Wind Instruments

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Oboist-director Nicholas Daniel negotiates tempos and dynamics so carefully, bittersweetness has its head here. I love the timely consolations of the clarinet family at the one at the end of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: CKD538
Label: Linn
Length: 78 minutes

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Strauss, R: Metamorphosen, TrV. 290

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Aldeburgh Strings, Markus Däunert

Strauss, R: Serenade in E flat major for Winds, Op. 7

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Aldeburgh Winds, Nicholas Daniel

Strauss, R: Symphony for Wind Instruments, TrV. 291 "Fröhliche Werkstatt"

Work length40:26

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Aldeburgh Winds, Nicholas Daniel

I. Allegro con brio

Track length13:14

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II. Andantino, sehr gemächlich

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III. Menuett - Etwas lebhaft

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IV. Einleitung

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Two super groups - the strings led by violinist Markus Däunert (leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra), and the winds led by oboeist Nicholas Daniel (whose distinguished career began with him being named BBC Young Musician of the Year) - combine in this, their second recording for Linn.

A counterpart to the Aldeburgh Strings course, whose recording of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings launched this partnership in 2016, Aldeburgh Winds offered an opportunity for exceptional wind and brass players to work intensively alongside leading international professionals.

Strauss poured out some of his most heartfelt inspiration in Metamorphosen, a 25-minute string masterpiece written as an elegy in the wake of Germany’s destruction in the Second World War.

In complete contrast the Serenade radiates Mozartian bonhomie combined with Strauss’s exquisite chamber scoring which provides a tantalising glimpse of the composer to come.

The Symphony for Wind Instruments (‘FröhlicheWerkstatt’) adds a third clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinet to the Serenade’s line-up and is very important work in the wind ensemble repertory.

The Aldeburgh Strings/Wind ensembles are a product of the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme, founded over forty years ago by Britten and Pears, in order to provide high-level performance training for the world’s best emerging professional musicians.

Tutors are drawn from some of the world’s finest orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Philharmonia and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and direct the ensemble sections from within, in an inspiring dual role of mentor and performer.

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September 2017

Oboist-director Nicholas Daniel negotiates tempos and dynamics so carefully, bittersweetness has its head here. I love the timely consolations of the clarinet family at the one at the end of the complicated first-movement development and in the third-movement trio. But high spirits also abound, and the final victory over depression is all the more impressive

July 2017

Daniel's feeling for Strauss's long-range ebb and flow [in the Serenade] is one of the great attractions of this disc; you get the impression he's happy to oversee the general pacing and balance and then trust his players to do the rest. And rightly: they make a glorious sound.

8th June 2017

[The Aldeburgh Strings] sound is lithe and rich, their trajectory isn’t thrown off course by every squall and they coalesce into broad, gutsy gestures when they want to. It’s a sophisticated performance. Strauss’s late wind ensemble pieces get similarly intelligent treatment from Aldeburgh Winds.

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