Strauss: Salome (Live 2-SACD) – Emily Magee, Peter Bronder
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Strauss: Salome (Live 2-SACD) – Emily Magee, Peter Bronder
Composer: Richard Strauss
Artists: Emily Magee, Peter Bronder, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Benjamin Bruns, Claude Eichenberger, Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Pentatone
Release Date: October 16, 2017
From the 2018 Gramophone Awards Shortlist:
Desire. Brutality. Lust. Slyness. Anxiety. What a fascinatingly menacing thematic mélange is seething in this Salome. Richard Strauss, the nervous contrapuntalist, had immediately recognized the potential of Oscar Wilde’s play, and had proceeded to add to it a musical meta-plane, which resulted in Salome becoming the scandalous new point of departure for opera in the 20th century.
This live recording of a concert given on September 10, 2016, features the young, up-and-coming conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada leading the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Orozco-Estrada surrounded his Salome with outstanding soloists of the German opera repertoire: Wolfgang Koch (Jochanaan), Peter Bronder (Herod), and Michaela Schuster (Herodias). The American soprano Emily Magee has developed into a true Strauss specialist and not only in this role. The Frankfurter Rundschau praised her readily appealing, powerful and untiring soprano voice.
History
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome
Premiere: Dresden Court Opera, 1905. The story of this incendiary and powerful opera is derived from a brief biblical account: A young princess of Judea dances for her stepfather Herod and chooses as her reward the head of the prophet John the Baptist. This subject captured the imaginations of generations of visual artists, but its full possibilities were perhaps best realized in Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy (which was banned from performance in several countries). Strauss’s score combines the grandeur of Wagner’s epics with the focus and emotional punch of the short Italian verismo operas.
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