STRAUSS: EIN HELDENLEBEN - BURLESKE

Antonio Pappano conducts Rome s Orchestra dell Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in two works from the earlier phase of Richard Strauss s career: a comparative rarity the mercurial virtuosic Burleske for piano and orchestra with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist and the epic autobiographical tone poem Ein Heldenleben one of the composer s orchestral masterpieces. Strauss always thought dramaturgically says Pappano. Recording this music in Italy the link has to be through opera with all it s theatricality temperament contrast and colour.. You need a certain charisma in the sound which these players achieve.