Soloists Of The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra * Richard Strauss: Elektra [New CD] Poster [w/ download card] Driftwood on the River

Driftwood on the River

Magnolian - Woods

I'm in the Story

Jam /Take a Fool Like You Previously Unreleased

From the title song to “The Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You

Soloists Of The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra * Richard Strauss: Elektra [New CD] Poster [w/ download card] Driftwood on the RiverFirst performed in Dresden in 1909, Elektra was Strauss's first collaboration (of many) with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and is the most modernist of all of his operas. Based on the (heavily reworked) play by Sophocles, Hofmannsthal's version concentrates on the inner thoughts and feelings of Elektra as she holds individual conversations with other members of her family. Strauss's score is exceptionally adventurous harmonically, and famously