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Composer:
Richard Strauss

Conductor:
Andris Nelsons

Background: What Ein Heldenleben needs is not only a first-class orchestra but also a conductor with a clear sense of the work's underlying structure, a conductor, moreover, who is able to maintain the tension and respond quickly and consistently to the work's countless details.

This is certainly how Andris Nelsons sees his task, a task that he realises magnificently in this, his second ORFEO recording with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra and its music director allow the orchestral colours to gleam and ensure that the individual sections that make up the score flow smoothly, sweeping the listener along with them.

This reading of Ein Heldenleben has such stringency and rigour that many of the aesthetic objections to the work merely add to our pleasure at individual details, while never calling into question the piece's overall design.

CATALOGUE NR: C803091A
RECORD LABEL: Orfeo
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 11-Jan-2010

COMPOSER: Richard Strauss
TRACKS: Ein Heldenleben - A Hero's Life op.40. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier.
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andris Nelsons

- Mar-2010 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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