Richard Strauss - Tod und Verklärung {Death and Transfiguration}

- Composer: Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 -- 8 September 1949) - Orchestra: Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Conductor: David Zinman - Year of recording: 2001 Tod und Verklärung {Death and Transfiguration}, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 24 (TrV 158), written in 1888-1889. There are four movements (with Ritter’s poetic thoughts condensed): 00:00 - I. Largo (The sick man, near death) 05:19 - II. Allegro molto agitato (The battle between life and death offers no respite to the man) 08:55 - III. Meno mosso (The dying man’s life passes before him) 16:53 - IV. Moderato (The sought-after transfiguration) Among Strauss’ tone poems, Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) stands out for its concise program of an unnamed artist’s demise and the subsequent transformation of his spirit. Unlike Ein Heldenleben, which contained an autobiographical element, Tod und Verklärung is more universal in its expression of dying. Here Strauss does n