Gerard Schwarz - Ein Heldenleben [COMPACT DISCS] USA import

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Gerard Schwarz - Ein Heldenleben [COMPACT DISCS]

Artist: Gerard Schwarz

Title: Ein Heldenleben

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2012

Label: Naxos

UPC: 747313121878

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

1. Der Held (The Hero) - Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) - Des Helden Gefahrtin (The Hero's Companion) - 00:21:42
2. Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field of Battle) - Des Helden Friedenswerke (The Hero's Works of Peace) - Des Helden Weltflucht Und Vollendung (The Hero's Retreat from the World and Fulfilment) 00:22:34
3. Capriccio, Op. 85: String Sextet, TRV 279A (Version for String Orchestra) 00:13:22

Autobiographical in content, Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben is one of a series of tone-poems, including, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Naxos 8.571215), in which he explored the utmost limits of extra-musical content in this form. The hero passes through love and adversity, confrontation, triumph in battle and fulfilment in a single, powerfully descriptive symphonic span. Gerard Schwarz's Ein Heldenleben has been acclaimed as "exciting and inspired" (Gramophone). The opera Capriccio is a romantic struggle to choose between words and music which opens with a gloriously bitter-sweet string sextet.