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Richard STRAUSS – Morgen, Op.27/4 – arranged for Voice (soprano), Viola and Piano

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“Morgen!” (“Tomorrow!”) is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. It is designated Opus 27, Number 4. The text of this Lied, the German love poem “Morgen!”, was written by Strauss’s contemporary, John Henry Mackay, who was of partly Scottish descent but brought up in Germany.

Strauss wrote the song originally to be accompanied by piano. However, in 1897 he orchestrated the accompaniment for orchestral strings plus a solo violin, a harp, and three horns. The orchestral strings are muted, and the dynamic throughout is pianissimo or even softer. The harp, playing arpeggios, and the solo violin accompany continuously until the word “stumm”, at which point the horns enter. The violin and harp re-enter after “Schweigen’, and the horns fall silent until the last few bars (only the last chord is joined by a solo horn).

A performance lasts about 3 1/2 minutes.

“Morgen!” remains one of Strauss’s best-known and most widely recorded works. Strauss himself recorded it in 1919 accompanying the tenor Robert Hutt on the piano, and again in 1941 conducting the orchestral version with tenor Julius Patzak and the Bavarian State Orchestra. His last recording of it was on  11th June 1947, in a live broadcast on radio with the composer conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and with the soprano soloist Annette Brun.

Johnstone basically transfers the melodic line of the piano right hand to the viola, there are few other changes!

Enjoy the music !!