Pois bem, mais um Strauss, desta vez sua “Symphonia Domestica”, e sempre com a regência de Neeme Järvi frente à Scottish National Orchestra. Além dessa obra, o cd também traz “Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche”, além de duas canções, sempre interpretadas por Felicity Lott.
Assim a Wikipedia descreve a “Symphonia Domestica”:
“The program of the work reflects the simplicity of the subject-matter. After the whole extended family (including the aunts and uncles) has been introduced, the parents are heard alone with their child (indeed, originally this section was labelled “parents’ happiness”, “child’s games”, “cradle song” and “the clock strikes 7pm”). The third section is a three-part adagio which begins with the husband’s activities. This is followed by “a love scene” which segues into “dreams and worries” for the child. The clock striking 7am launches the finale. This sees itself through to an “awakening” passage, followed by “a lively row” which ends with “making up” and “happy conclusion of the stormy family scene”.”
Para o “Till Eulenspiegel” eis a análise da mesma Wikipedia:
“The work opens with a ‘Once upon a time’ theme, with solo horn bursting in with two repetitions of the first Till theme. The theme is taken by the rest of the orchestra in a rondo form (which Strauss spelled in its original form, rondeau), and this beginning section concludes with the tutti orchestra repeating two notes, along the lines of a child’s “ta da!”. The clarinet theme is heard next, suggesting Till’s laughter as he plots his next prank. The music follows Till throughout the countryside, as he rides a horse through a market, upsetting the goods and wares, pokes fun at the strict Teutonic clergy, flirts and chases girls (the love theme is given to soli first violin), and mocks the serious academics.
The music suggesting a horse ride returns again, with the first theme restated all over the orchestra, when the climax abruptly changes to a funeral march. Till has been captured by the authorities, and is sentenced to beheading for blasphemy. The funeral march of the headsman begins a dialogue with the desperate Till, who tries to wheedle and joke his way out of this predicament. Unfortunately, he has no effect on the stony executioner, who lets fall the ax. The D clarinet wails in a distortion of the first theme, signifying his death scream, and a pizzicato by the strings represents the actual execution. After a moment of silence, the ‘once upon a time’ theme heard at the beginning returns, suggesting that someone like Till can never be destroyed, and the work ends with one last quotation of the musical joke.”
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) – Symphonia Domestica, Till Eulenspiegel, Two Songs
01 – Symphonia Domestica. I – Introduction
02 – Symphonia Domestica. II – Scherzo
03 – Symphonia Domestica. III – Adagio
04 – Symphonia Domestica. IV – Finale
05 – Symphonia Domestica. V – Epilogue
06 – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
07 – Zueignung
08 – Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland
Felicity Lott – Soprano
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi – Conductor
FDP Bach
