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STRONG: Ondine / From a Notebook of Sketches, Suites 1-3 - Moscow Symphony Orchestra

STRONG: Ondine / From a Notebook of Sketches, Suites 1-3 - Moscow Symphony Orchestra

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George Templeton Strong was an American Romantic who, after a period of study in Germany, where he frequented the circles of Liszt and Wagner, eventually settled in Switzerland. His music was championed by giants such as Ansermet, Szigeti, Iturbi and Toscanini. Strong’s symphonic poem Ondine, won the approval of Liszt to whom it was dedicated. An extended, programmatic symphonic poem with echoes of Tchaikovsky, Wagner and even Schumann and Dvořák, it translates into music the story of a water spirit trying to regain her lost human soul by marrying an uncomprehending human being. The three colourful programmatic suites, orchestrations of piano duets written some fifty years earlier, here receive not only their first complete recording but their first complete performance since Ernest Ansermet conducted excerpts in the 1940s.

Strong, George Templeton
 Ondine (Symphonic Poem)
1 Ondine 25:23
 From a Notebook of Sketches, Suite No. 1
2 I. Eclogue 03:32
3 II. The Elves Blow the Horn 01:28
4 III. The Cemetery - Sarabande of the Dead 07:13
5 IV. In the Inn: the Night Watch 03:00
 From a Notebook of Sketches, Suite No. 2, "Athens"
6 I. Youth of Athens 04:08
7 II. Evening Dance 02:11
8 III. Entering the Parthenon 04:30
 From a Notebook of Sketches, Suite No. 3
9 I. Jack the Giant-Killer 05:53
10 II. The Dreams of Cinderella 04:28
11 III. Oriental Procession (ed. Adriano) 05:34

 

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