In the wake of it's first performance under his own direction in March 1904, Strauss struck a self-satisfied note: "Domestica has turned out a success, it sounds great, but it's very difficult." The...
Recorded live in concert at Royal Festival Hall in 1988 and 1992 under the baton of Zubin Mehta, these recordings of Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade are now...
Richard Strauss's original working title his Symphonia Domestica was "My home: A symphonic portrait of my family and myself" and was intended as a homely sequel to his Ein Heldenleben. Instead of the...