R Strauss - Metamorphosen, Wind Sonatina no.1
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Label: Berlin Classics
Cat No: 0303020BC
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 17th November 2023
Contents
Works
MetamorphosenSonatina no.1 in F major for 16 wind instruments 'Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden', AV135
Artists
Mozarteumorchester SalzburgConductor
Riccardo MinasiWorks
MetamorphosenSonatina no.1 in F major for 16 wind instruments 'Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden', AV135
Artists
Mozarteumorchester SalzburgConductor
Riccardo MinasiAbout
However, the decision for the First Wind Sonatina is also a link to the first album “Mozart - Serenades”. “Gran Partita”, Mozart’s Serenade for winds, served Strauss as a model for the Wind Sonatina. The designation Sonatina is just as much a trivialisation as the assignment of Mozart’s work to the genre of the serenade. Measured by the musical content; it is rather a full-blown wind symphony. Strauss composed it after recovering from a severe case of the flu and commented on it with the subtitle “From the workshop of an invalid.” In general, Strauss likes to refer to his late instrumental works as “workshop works, so that the right wrist, freed from the baton, does not fall asleep prematurely.” And so the circle of understatements closes.
However, the new album does not begin with the First Wind Sonatina, but with the equally beautiful and sad Metamorphosen. The destruction at the end of World War 2 led Strauss into a despairing mood “My beautiful Dresden-Weimar-Munich, all gone!” In this troubled emotional state, Strauss begins to write a septet for strings, which he expands into a large work for 23 solo strings after receiving an official commission from the Swiss conductor Paul Sacher. In the last bars, a musical quotation from Beethoven’s “Eroica” is heard – the funeral march theme, with which Strauss once again emphasises his personal consternation. All these feelings are made perceptible by the extremely differentiated interpretation of conductor and orchestra.
The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, founded with the participation of Constanze Mozart in 1841, today enjoys the highest reputation worldwide for its lively and stylistically conscious Mozart interpretations. This album shows that the orchestra can easily operate beyond this core repertoire and is quite justifiably now also appreciated for interpretations of 19th/20th and 21st century music. A successful look over the repertoire horizon!
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