R. Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite & Ariadne auf Naxos, Symphony-suite Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta

• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite, Op. 60, TrV 228c:
• 1I. Act I: Ouvertüre - Auftritt des Jourdain04:08
• 2II. Menuett01:43
• 3III. Der Fechtmeister01:50
• 4IV. Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider05:22
• 5V. Das Menuett des Lully02:12
• 6VI. Courante02:49
• 7VII. Auftritt des Cléonte04:12
• 8VIII. Act II: Prelude (Intermezzo)03:23
• 9IX. Das Diner: Tafelmusik und Tanz des Küchenjungen10:39
• Ariadne auf Naxos, Symphony-suite (Arr. D.W. Ochoa):
• 10I. Prologue (Overture to the Prologue)05:13
• 11II. Duet: Ein Augenblick ist wenig, ein Blick is viel03:54
• 12III. Waltz: Eine Störrische zu trösten06:11
• 13IV. Overture, "The Opera Overture" - Ein Schönes War04:47
• 14V. Aria: Es gibt ein Reich06:21
• 15VI. Interlude04:21
• 16VII. Finale: Gibt es kein Hinüber?08:30
• Total Runtime01:15:35

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Richard Strauss’ Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite was one of his own favourite scores, an absolute jewel of incidental music that combines the composer’s romanticism with his love of the Baroque music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. D. Wilson Ochoa has created a new symphonic orchestral suite from Strauss’ opulent Ariadne auf Naxos, enabling the orchestra to revel in music of extreme beauty and sensuous luxury, studded with gorgeous instrumental solos and the composer’s incomparable blend of poignancy, humour and melodic richness.

This recording reunites two of Richard Strauss’s best works from 1912 in an entirely new context. The suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme has long been a popular choice for orchestral recordings, but as an ‘opera-withinopera’, Ariadne auf Naxos in its original version with singers is a complex and demanding production. D. Wilson Ochoa has created a more easily accessible orchestral suite that acts as a kind of symphony, presenting and developing the charming lyricism of the main themes while retaining Strauss’s instrumentation.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor

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