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...Quixote has always been the black sheep among the Richard Strauss tone poems. It has consistently been denied the great popularity of the earlier works, even of later works like Ein Heldenleben. Probably the reason is its extreme digressiveness: it rambles along, absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared...
...love for the work, which on the whole triumphs over the occasional patchiness of his performance. Feurmann's cello playing is, as always, superlative, and blends admirably with the smooth viola-solo of Samuel Lifschey. The cello solo is one reason why Don Quixote appeals to me more than Ein Heldenleben, in which work the lengthy passages of ultra-sweet, upper-register fiddling get on my nerves so much as to lessen my enjoyment of the work...
...like the family Stein: There is Gert, there is Ep and there's Ein; Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And nobody understands Ein...
Strong Man. At present Göring's hefty shoulders are for many reasons the strongest support of the Nazi regime. The Army respects him because he is a soldier and ein Herr. Having no outstanding leader of its own, the Army looks to Göring not only for moral leadership but as a bridge between it and inscrutable Adolf Hitler...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Up-to-date recording technique makes Composer Strauss's autobiographical "Life of a Hero" scintillate. But Conductor Ormandy's interpretation has not quite the sweep of the performance recorded in 1928 by irascible Willem Mengelberg, to whom the autobiography was dedicated...