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World-renowned actor Patrick Stewart and Grammy®-winning pianist Emanuel Ax join their considerable talents on this tour-de-force recording of Richard Strauss’s melodrama Enoch Arden.   Patrick Stewart, narratorEmanuel Ax, pianoPreview selections from this release by viewing our mediaplayer! Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden – A melodrama for piano and speaker after Alfred Lord Tennyson Based on the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem of love and sacrifice, Enoch Arden tells the tale of a young Scottish sailor who leaves his family to make his name in the treacherous seas of the East.  Ten years pass, and passions and fortunes change as with the tide, and the long-lost and battered Arden returns to a very different home than he left behind. This release also features Emanuel Ax’s performance of Strauss’ Five Piano Pieces for solo piano, Op. 3 Click here to access our digital booklet for this release. 

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