Strauss/ Berlin Radio Choir/ Janowski - Symphonia Domestica - Die Tageszeiten AEC Video Markus Schäfer and Tobias Koch

Markus Schäfer and Tobias Koch remind us that these songs' status was not as monolithic as it has become

but the latter something that's refreshingly new

Apart from Homage to Chagall

to duet on their International Sleeper hit "Dirty Dancing"

as well as to the tireless advocacy of Launy Grøndahl for the music of his own country

Strauss/ Berlin Radio Choir/ Janowski - Symphonia Domestica - Die Tageszeiten AEC Video Markus Schäfer and Tobias KochRichard 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 hero's struggle for supremacy, Symphonia presents a portrait of a family, with the husband, wife and child each characterized by themes. Strauss's Die Tageszeiten (1928) for male choir and orchestra set poems by Eichendorff to music in four romantic