Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sextet from Capriccio - CD

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<p>Autobiographical in content, Richard Strauss's <i>Ein Heldenleben </i>is one of a series of tone-poems, including <i>Also sprach Zarathustra </i>, in which he explored the utmost limits of extra-musical content in this form. The hero passes through love and adversity, confrontation, triumph in battle and fulfilment in a single, powerfully descriptive symphonic span. Gerard Schwarz's <i>Ein Heldenleben </i>has been acclaimed as "exciting and inspired" (<i>Gramophone</i>). The opera <i>Capriccio </i>is a romantic struggle to choose between words and music which opens with a gloriously bitter-sweet string sextet.</p>