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Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden
(2007)
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performed by
Emanuel Ax (piano), Patrick Stewart (spoken word)
composed by
Richard Strauss
The melodrama, a genre in which a spoken text is declaimed over a musical accompaniment, was a popular form in the nineteenth century, but it failed to thrive in the twentieth. While performances of Strauss' 1897 setting of Tennyson's narrative poem "Enoch Arden" remain rare, it has aged well, and performances as fine as this are a testimony to ...
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