Credits:

Prague Radio Symphony Orc

Description:

Titiati's sweetly sung Richard Strauss! The first Richard Strauss album for Robin Titiati and the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin after a very successful tour in Japan in 2019. Speaking of Titiati's R. Strauss, his performance of "The Knight of Roses" (OA1170D/OABD7168D) at Glyndebourne in 2014 was highly acclaimed, so it is somewhat surprising that this is his first release of an orchestral work. In "Don Juan," which was also performed in the opening concert in Japan, the orchestra sings the details carefully without pushing too hard, and the beautiful aspects of the work are heard in abundance. The "Six Songs" features Louise Alder, who has been rapidly gaining recognition in recent years, winning the Joan Sutherland Audience Award at the 2017 Cardiff International Competition and singing the title role in Handel's "Semele" conducted by John Eliot Gardiner in 2019. In 2019, she sang the title role in Handel's "Semele" conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Described as "the most brilliant of young lyric sopranos" (The Arts Desk) and "a sparklingly beautiful voice" (The Gramophone), she brings her phenomenal expressive range to Baroque, Classical, and late Romantic music.In "Death and Transfiguration," one of the representative works of the young R. Strauss in his early twenties, written at about the same time as "Don Juan," each of the rapidly changing musical ideas was captured beautifully and given a rich sense of color. Titiani is still in his thirties, and he is capable of creating such sensual music with fine control of the orchestra. This is an album created with deep empathy for this precocious composer. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Don Juan, Op. 20
2.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~An die Nacht
3.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden
4.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~Saus'le, liebe Myrte!
5.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~Als mir dein Lied erklang!
6.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~Amor
7.Sechs Lieder, Op. 68~Lied der Frauen
8.Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24