Bertrand Chamayou, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben – Burleske

Warner Classics

£12.96

Format: CD
ICPN: 0190295028459
Release Date: 14th May 2021
Genre: Classical

Antonio Pappano conducts Rome’s Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in two works from the earlier phase of Richard Strauss’s career: a comparative rarity, the mercurial, virtuosic Burleske for piano and orchestra, with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, and the epic autobiographical tone poem Ein Heldenleben, one of the composer’s orchestral masterpieces. “Strauss always thought dramaturgically,” says Pappano. “Recording this music in Italy, the link has to be through opera, with all its theatricality, temperament, contrast and colour …You need a certain charisma in the sound, which these players achieve.”

TRACKLIST PHYSICAL & DIGITAL – STRAUSS: EIN HELDENLEBEN – BURLESKE
1-6. Ein Heldenleben TrV 190 Op.40 (A Hero’s Life)
1. I. Der Held
2. II. Des Helden Widersacher
3. III. Des Helden Gefahrtin
4. IV. Des Helden Walstatt
5. V. Des Helden Friedenswerke
6. VI. Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung
7. Burleske, TrV 145 (for piano and orchestra)

Artists:
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor