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Capriccio (Prelude)
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performers: Calidore String Quartet
Performer: Andrei Ionita (Cello)
Performer: Eivind Ringstad (Viola)
Date of broadcast: 30 August 2018
From Strauss's final opera - composed during Germany's invasion of Russia - comes this tale of a poet and composer vying for the hand of a countess. Its premi猫re was in Munich on October 24, 1942; 1800 miles away Stalingrad burned.
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performers: Calidore String Quartet
Performer: Andrei Ionita (Cello)
Performer: Eivind Ringstad (Viola)
Recording date: 10 July 2018
Date of broadcast: 30 August 2018
