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R Strauss - Ein Heldenleben + Works by Verdi & Fletcher  | Exton OVCL00338

R Strauss - Ein Heldenleben + Works by Verdi & Fletcher

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Label: Exton

Cat No: OVCL00338

Barcode: 4526977003388

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd February 2014

Contents

Artists

Michael Rusinek (clarinet)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Manfred Honeck

Works

Fletcher, Alan

Clarinet Concerto

Strauss, Richard

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), op.40

Verdi, Giuseppe

La forza del destino
» Overture

Artists

Michael Rusinek (clarinet)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Manfred Honeck

About

This new Hybrid SACD recording features the first recording of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with its new director of music, Manfred Honeck.

The main work is Richard Strauss’ massive tone poem Ein Heldenleben which was written in 1898 and dedicated to the 27-year old conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Ein Heldenleben is an episodic work in which the composer recalls his “heroic” struggle through life.

The American composer Alan Fletcher, who’s Clarinet Concerto was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and is here receiving its world premier recording, is president and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and studied under Roger Sessions and Milton Babbit.

The Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck began his career as conductor of Vienna's Jeunesse Orchestra, which he co-founded, and as assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. After several highly successful guest appearances as conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed its ninth Music Director in 2008.

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