Andrés Orozco-Estrada reviews
Haydn: The Creation
Nicole Heaston, Toby Spence, Peter Rose; Houston Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Andrés Orozco-Estrada (Pentatone)
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Strauss's Salome
Some claim that Richard Strauss’s Salome is a symphonic poem with voices added. That’s how Andrés Orozco-Estrada interprets it, missing the essential drive of the operatic narrative. True, many of the motifs are orchestrally led, but quite a few fit the words (‘Er ist schreklich’ – ‘he is horrible’, as Salome sings of John the Baptist; or ‘Gib mir den Kopf des Jokanaan’ – ‘give me the head of Jokanaan’).