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Post mortem?

February 3, 2020 · by Chris Weeks | in Classical music, Orchestral, Tone Poem | tagged Don Juan, Richard Strauss

w This five note motif appears towards the end of the last of Strauss’ Four Last Songs, his setting of Eichendorff’s poem Im Abendrot (At Sunset). It’s played at the moment – the final line of the poem – when the singer asks ‘Ist dies etwa der Tod?’  (Is this perhaps death?) The motif is […]

The Nightmare

January 25, 2020 · by Chris Weeks | in Classical music, Orchestral, Tone Poem | tagged Don Juan, Richard Strauss

Of all the works in the standard orchestral repertoire, the opening that you see above – it’s Strauss’ Don Juan – must rank very high on a list entitled ‘Beginnings that Make Conductors Wake at Dead of Night in a Cold Sweat’. As you can see, it’s marked Allegro molto con brio (very fast and energetic) […]

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