| Naxos | Though composing well into the 20th century, Richard Strauss was the last of the great Romantic composers. Through a career that spanned seventy years he enjoyed enormous popularity as a composer and conductor. With his erotic operas, Salome and Elektra, he created considerable public interest, while the symphonic poems, including Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote, took his name into the popular symphonic repertoire. Completed in 1897, Strauss described Don Quixote as "fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character". He gave the characters of Quixote and Sancho Panza to a solo cello and viola, with the orchestra graphically painting the scenes in which the great Knight attempts his many ill-fated adventures. Fourteen years earlier Strauss had composed the Romance, a short one one-movement lyrical work for cello and orchestra. |
| Disc No: 8.554175 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Richard Strauss Don Quixote | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Richard Strauss | Don Quixote | National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland - Gerhard Markson Alexander Rudin, Cello | ||
| Richard Strauss | Romance for cello and orchestra |