Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59 & Don Juan, op.20

Album by Richard Strauss & London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn

Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59 and Don Juan, Op. 20 are orchestral works by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1911 and 1888 respectively. The Rosenkavalier Suite exemplifies Strauss's late-Romantic orchestral colour and lyrical, waltz-inflected writing derived from his operatic idiom, while Don Juan is an earlier tone poem characterised by brisk, dramatic motifs, expansive brass and string writing and adventurous chromatic harmony, marking a key step in his development of programme symphonic poetry.