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Don Juan, Op. 20, is a tone poem in E major for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. The work is based on Don Juans Ende, a play derived from an unfinished 1844 retelling of the tale by poet Nikolaus Lenau after the Don Juan legend which originated in Renaissance-era Spain.
Don Juan, op. 20 es un poema sinfónico para gran orquesta escrito por Richard Strauss en 1888. La obra se basa en el poema Don Juan de Nikolaus Lenau. Fue estrenado el 11 de noviembre de 1889 en Weimar por la orquesta de la ópera de esa ciudad bajo la dirección del propio Strauss, quien servía como Kapellmeister de la corte. 1 2 .
Richard Strauss Conducts Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Richard Strauss. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at
Till Eulenspiegel, Strauss’s mischievous prankster, is a character from fourteenth century traditional German folk legends. Concerned with orchestral detail Honeck in the notes explains that in the trial scene he has heightened the pitch of the D clarinet to make it more audible.
At the end of Don Juan, the strings play sul ponticello (on the bridge of the instrument) to make Don Juan’s death even creepier and more graphic. At 12:15 in Till Eulenspiegel, Honeck moves the D-clarinet’s weird “distorted” note up an octave, so that it screeches in agony over the entire orchestra while the prankster is sentenced to ...
Furtwangler also gave the world premiere of Vier letzte Lieder in 1950. But only three Strauss works were allowed a place in his programs from the earliest years through the last; these were also the only works by Strauss he recorded commercially—Don Juan, Tod und Verklarung, and Till Eulenspiegel.
Find release reviews and credits for Richard Strauss Conducts Till Eulenspiegel; Don Juan; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Richard Strauss on AllMusic - 1999
