R. Strauss: Complete Tone Poems

Featuring

François-Xavier Roth
Johannes Lüthy
Frank-Michael Guthmann
Jermolaj Albiker
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Richard Strauss

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Composition History

Richard Strauss's Symphonia domestica, completed in 1903, musically depicts his family's daily life, including scenes like 'Mama puts Bubi to bed' and 'Papa and mama seuls: scène d'amour'.

Composition History

Richard Strauss's ten tone poems form the core of his instrumental work, and this album collects all of them, along with his late Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen, written near the end of World War II, reflects the collapse of his personal and artistic world, ending with a quote from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

Historical Context

The symphonic poem, or tone poem, was not a German invention, but rather emerged in countries like France, Russia, Bohemia, and Hungary, where there was a strong desire to create national music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Strauss believed the tone poem, a genre that conveys non-musical topics through music, would allow him to develop an inimitable style.

Compositional Technique

In his tone poems, Richard Strauss often assigned specific instruments to characters, such as a solo cello for Don Quixote and a solo viola for Sancho Panza in his work of the same name.