Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen, Songs For Soprano & Piano
Joan Rodgers, Jan Latham-Koenig & Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
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Joan Rodgers, Jan Latham-Koenig & Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Description
Jan Latham-Koenig brings out all the richness of Strauss' orchestral scoring and vocal writing in an album of tone poems and lieder.
Jan Latham-Koenig was one of Avie's flagship artists. As Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the unique coupling of Franck's Symphony in D with extracts from Psyché (AV 0003), and Ibert's rare, early opera Persée et Andromède (AV 0008). These recordings of Strauss' Don Juan and Metamorphosen were Latham-Koenig's valedictory recordings in Strasbourg, and illuminate his brilliant ability to shape phrases and extract orchestral colour – ideal for Strauss' vividly pictorial tone poems. An equally accomplished pianist, Latham-Koenig completes the album by accompanying one of England's leading vocal lights, soprano Joan Rodgers, in a selection of Strauss' early Lieder.
Critical acclaim:
"The unique coupling and the refinement of sound and performance give the disc an obvious place." - Gramophone (on Franck Symphony, Psyché, AV0003)
"Jan Latham-Koenig and the Strasbourg Philharmonic bring out Ibert's rich scoring to the full." – Gramophone, Editor's Choice (on Ibert's Persée et Andromède, AV0008)
Personnel: Joan Rodgers (soprano), Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor/piano), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Tracklisting
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Donald Berman
Lauren Scott
East of the River
Sebastian Bohren, Sergei Bolkhovets, Munchener Kammerorchester
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
Yoshika Masuda, HyeJin Kim
Sarah Hennies
Donna McKevitt
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Henryk Czyz
Hyuk Lee (piano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrzej Boreyko
Ensemble de Caelis
Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill