Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklaerung & Aus Italien (Death and Transfiguration & From Italy)
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.OC-892

By Frankfurter Opern- & Museumsorchester and Sebastian Weigle. By Richard Strauss. Classical. CD. Oehms Classics #OC 892. Published by Oehms Classics (NX.OC-892).

Richard Strauss was not yet 25 when he confronted death in musical terms. However, Death and Transfiguration was not created, as often supposed, as a more or less autobiographical report following a severe illness, but as a pictorial attempt at portraying the final moments of human existence in music. In From Italy, the just twenty-year-old Strauss reflects on a trip to Italy in which he experienced at first hand the beauties of nature and the Roman ruins. Both works are now brought together as Part 5 of the Strauss cycle with Sebastian Weigle on an released by OehmsClassics. Conductor Sebastian Weigle conducts his Frankfurter Opern-und Museumsorchester with transparency and aplomb.