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Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss setting a German translation of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden by Patrick Stewart released in 2007. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Notes. Spoken text, biographies, and translations are available at www.emanuelax.com/enoch. Barcode and Other Identifiers. Barcode: 886970905626. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CD release of "Enoch Arden" on Discogs.
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Enoch Arden ~ Release by Richard Strauss; Patrick Stewart, Emanuel Ax (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
Find release reviews and credits for Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden - Patrick Stewart on AllMusic - - The melodrama, a genre in which a spoken text is ...
His former wife has remarried and the unrecognized Enoch observes her new happiness without revealing himself in his lifetime. The last recording I heard of “Enoch Arden” was a performance by Patrick Stewart and Emmanuel Ax. In my review I noted the absence of the last three lines of text: “So past the strong heroic soul away,
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Richard Strauss’ 1897 melodrama Enoch Arden embroiders Tennyson’s once fashionable dramatic poem with piano underscorings and interludes that mirror and comment upon the text. Some passages contain catchy themes and inventive counterpoint; others consist of facile tremolos that foreshadow silent-movie clichés.
