Strauss: Macbeth - Dance of the Seven Veils - Metamorphosen - CD

ENGLISH

<p>The three works in this programme reflect different aspects of Strauss's compositional life. The tone-poem <i>Macbeth</i>, written between 1888 and 1891, offers a grippingly taut narrative. The <i>Dance of the Seven Veils </i>from the 1905 opera <i>Salome </i>is one of its most exciting and intoxicating moments. Towards the end of his life, facing the ruin wrought by World War II, Strauss took inspiration from Goethe and wrote <i>Metamorphosen</i>, one of the most moving of all twentieth-century works.</p>