Philadelphia Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy conducts Richard Strauss’s Enoch Arden (Tennyson), orchestrated by Lucien Cailliet (first performance), narrated by Claude Rains; 3/61.

Oct 17, 2025 | Videos | 3 comments

Claude Rains

Philadelphia Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy conducts Richard Strauss, with soprano Hilde Güden; 10/64.

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  1. Robert Matthew-Walker
    Robert Matthew-Walker on October 17, 2025 at 8:41 pm

    I was unaware of this very effective orchestration, but prefer the original, especially in the Columbia recording with Glenn Gould and Claude Rains, who – with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid – was superb as the composer in the 1946 movie Deception, containing the original version of Korngold’s Cello Concerto (later worked into a concert piece), played by Eleanor Aller. Perhaps Leonard Slatkin could record this Concerto?

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  3. Andrew Neill
    Andrew Neill on October 18, 2025 at 11:09 am

    I agree with Bob, this is a very effective orchestration but it ideas rather get away from the point of the original composition. I, too have always been very fond of the Raines/Gould recording but having been involved in a modern recording for SOMM (which includes Strauss’s other narration with piano accompaniment, The Castle by the Sea – it was good to hear another interpretation by that fine actor, Christopher Kent.

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